Pejorative vs. Diminutive

Arok Wolvengrey awolvengrey at FIRSTNATIONSUNIVERSITY.CA
Thu May 9 02:55:22 UTC 2013


Thank you, Ives

I had assumed the diminutive (and its sound symbolism) went back to *PA (and even Proto-Algic), but I wasn't sure about the pejorative.  It would seem to fairly naturally diverge from and/or converge with a diminutive, and both seem to have happened in the history of the Algonquian languages.  Has the pejorative been reconstructed for Proto-Algonquian?

Best,
Arok



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