<div dir="ltr">Yahgan (recently extinct genetic isolate from Tierra del Fuego) created diminutives by prefixing yeka 'little, small' to nominals- for ex. yek'oale:wa (from yeka wvle:wa) 'little boy' (v schwa, colon marks tenseness of the vowel preceding it). One could also postpose kuru: 'like, love' to create forms meaning 'beloved X' (as in some Biblical passages, etc.). That's about it, SFAIK, for this language.<div><br></div><div>Jess Tauber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 8:57 AM Françoise Rose <<a href="mailto:francoise.rose@univ-lyon2.fr">francoise.rose@univ-lyon2.fr</a>> wrote:<br></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="msg7572328336991829067">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dear Christian, dear all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cross-linguistically, diminutives often take on those meanings (see Ponsonnet 2018).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the history of Mojeño, a former diminutive is now specialized in the expression of compassion (Rose 2018). Another diminutive has emerged, that is already seen to be used also with
emotional functions.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Françoise<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ponsonnet, Maïa. 2018. A preliminary typology of emotional connotations in morphological diminutives and augmentatives.
<i>Studies in Language</i> 42(1). 17–50. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(doi:</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.00002.pon" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">10.1075/sl.00002.pon</span></a><span lang="EN-US">)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Rose, Françoise. 2018. The rise and fall of Mojeño diminutives through the centuries.
</span><i>Studies in Language</i> 42(1). 146–181.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>De :</b> Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>>
<b>De la part de</b> Christian Döhler<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> jeudi 12 janvier 2023 11:10<br>
<b>À :</b> <a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>
<b>Objet :</b> [Lingtyp] Affectionate or sympathy marking<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,<br>
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I am looking for publications that address the difference between (1) and (2). In (2), the English adjective
<i>poor</i> is used to signal the speaker's sympathy or affection towards the dog.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<i>The dog is waiting for its owner.</i><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<i>The poor dog is waiting for its owner.</i><u></u><u></u></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal">While English (and my native German) does this by extending the meaning of the adjective
<i>poor </i>(and <i>arm</i> in German), other languages have special words with only that meaning. For example, Komnzo
<i>bana </i>is a postposed adjective that only conveys sympathy. <br>
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<i> ni bananzo namnzr karen.</i><br>
<i> </i>ni bana=nzo na\m/nzr kar=en<br>
1NSG SYMP=only 1PL:NPST:IPFV/stay village=LOC<br>
'Only we poor guys stay behind in the village' (subtext: 'while the others are going to the celebration in the neighbouring village')<br>
(NSG = non-singular, SYMP = sympathy marker, NPST = nonpast)<br>
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Yet other languages seem to have special verb morphology for this. Van Tongeren describes this for Suki (her PhD grammar will probably be available later this year).<br>
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Pointers to more examples and publications of this are most welcome. I was googling this with keywords like "sympathy", "empathy", "affection", but with not much luck. So there might be a whole literature on this phenomenon under different terminology. If that's
the case, then please excuse my ignorance.<i><br>
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Very Best,<br>
Christian<br>
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<pre>Dr. Christian Döhler<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)<u></u><u></u></pre>
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