<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Some Algonquian languages have verbal diminutive conjugations, for instance Fox (see Goddard 1994) and some varieties of Cree, and it is possible that the negative suffix found in Ojibwe-Potawatomi (-sii) and in Miami-Illinois (-hsii/-hsoo) is derived from it (Costa 2003:335). <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>References</div><div>Goddard, Ives (1994) Leonard Bloomfield's Fox lexicon. Winnipeg : Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics.</div><div>Costa, David 2003. The Miami-Illinois language. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. <br></div><div><a href="https://books.google.fr/books?id=qCyE8fR12HsC&pg=PA335#v=onepage&q&f=false">https://books.google.fr/books?id=qCyE8fR12HsC&pg=PA335#v=onepage&q&f=false</a><br></div><div><a href="https://books.google.fr/books?id=qCyE8fR12HsC&pg=PA347#v=onepage&q&f=false">https://books.google.fr/books?id=qCyE8fR12HsC&pg=PA347#v=onepage&q&f=false</a><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail-m_6744551999089294348gmail-m_-1061924604373252589gmail-m_1115708633980186689gmail-m_3319815235683860191WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">We would be grateful for any
                  references and/or examples of verbal diminutives in
                  the language(s) of your expertise, including their
                  semantics/pragmatics, formation, (diachronic) origin,
                  productivity and usage frequency.</p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">We will post a summary.</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Guillaume Jacques<br>CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO<br><a href="http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques" target="_blank">http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques</a><br><div><a href="http://panchr.hypotheses.org/" target="_blank">http://panchr.hypotheses.org/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>