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And while at it take a look at this one too:
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<div class="">Dressler, Wolfgang U. 1968: Studien zur verbalen Pluralität: Iterativum, Distributivum, Durativum, Intensivum in der allgemeinen Grammatik, im Lateinischen und Hethitischen. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-hist. Klasse 259.1.)
Wien: Böhlau.</div>
<div class="">(Nice review by Anna Morpurgo in The Classical Review 21. 91-93, 1971.)</div>
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<div class="">I’ve seen more work on this sort of thing, in Austria (Dressler himself, Veronika Mattes, Dina El Zarka …) and elsewhere.</div>
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<div class="">On 17. Dec 2018, at 04:25, Zygmunt Frajzyngier <<a href="mailto:zygmunt.frajzyngier@colorado.edu" class="">zygmunt.frajzyngier@colorado.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">You will find an early discussion of the plurality/diminutive function of reduplication in:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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Frajzyngier, Zygmunt. 1965. An analysis of intensive forms in Hausa verbs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Rocznik Orientalistyczny</i>29.2.31-51.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>>
on behalf of Bill Palmer <<a href="mailto:bill.palmer@newcastle.edu.au" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">bill.palmer@newcastle.edu.au</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 2:06 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"Lier, Eva van" <<a href="mailto:E.H.vanLier@uva.nl" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">E.H.vanLier@uva.nl</a>>, "<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>"
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<b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [Lingtyp] query: verbal diminutives<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I’ve been doing some work recently on verbal number/pluractionality, particularly in some previously uninvestigated Papuan languages and in North American languages, and I’ve been struck by the fact that in some
languages the pluractional morphology seems to give a diminutive reading instead of the verbal number meaning. This intersection between verbal number and diminutives is something that has not been investigated, to my knowledge, so I’m very pleased to hear
of your project. I suggest thinking explicitly about verbal number, and I think it would be worth considering that the proposed aspectual functions you mention are actual verbal number, not aspect. It seems to me that some of the examples you give may be verbal
number, not diminutive. The Hebrew example seems to conform to that. The four Slavic examples, Croatian, Czech, Slovene and Russian, might also be – I’d be interested in knowing what the underived verbs mean in those cases, and ditto with the Huave example.
Maybe you and I could have a chat about this at some point. I’d be interested in hearing more about what you’re doing.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Lingtyp] query: verbal diminutives<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Dear colleagues,<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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We are looking for examples and literature on verbal diminutives in and across languages.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Currently, we have some information on verbal diminutives in various languages. Some examples include: German<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">hüsteln<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(‘to cough lightly’), Italian<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">dormicchiare<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(‘to
doze’), Croatian<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">grickati<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(‘to nibble’), Czech<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">třepotat<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(‘to
flutter’),<i class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Slovene<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">igričkati</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(‘to play around’), Russian<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">xaxan’kat<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(‘to
giggle’), Finnish<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">luk-ais-e<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(‘skim through (a text)’ <<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">luk-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>‘read’),
San’ani Arabic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">tSaynai<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(‘to pretend not to hear’ <<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Saanaj<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>‘to
not hear’), Hebrew<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">kifcec<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(‘to jump around <<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">kafac<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>‘to
jump’), Passamaquoddy<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">ə̆pə-ss-ìn<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(sit-<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal;" class="">dim-animate.intransitive.2</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><
‘sit down, little one!’), Huave<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">jujyuij<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(‘to shake gently’), and Lardil<span style="" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">laala</i> (‘to
jab lightly’ <<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">latha</i> ‘to spear’).</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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These examples show that the morphological patterns that we subsume under “verbal diminutives” fulfill a number of semantic functions, such as iterative/frequentative/durative, low intensity, distributivity, and attenuation. These functions may extend (pragmatically)
to playfulness, tentativeness, pretense/irrealis/fictiveness, trivialization, aimlessness, affection/intimacy, and contempt/pejorativeness. In some cases (see Passamaquoddy above), verbal diminutive marking implies that an event participant is a child or an
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Also, verbal diminutives can be expressed by various morphological means, including affixation, reduplication, and non-concatenative morphology. In some cases, the verbal diminutive markers are related to nominal diminutives; in other cases, they seem to have
different origins, such as spatial markers. The productivity of verbal diminutive formation apparently differs between languages.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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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.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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We will post a summary.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Many thanks in advance!<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="NL" class="">Eva van Lier, Jenny Audring, Sterre Leufkens</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Eva van Lier, PhD<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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