Pejorative vs. Diminutive
Goddard, Ives
GODDARDI at SI.EDU
Thu May 9 13:26:08 UTC 2013
Since Unami /sh/ : Ojibwe /sh/ (i.e. shsh) is not a regular correspondence there's no way to reconstruct a clearcut protoform for these. (The regular correspondences are Un /sh/ : Oj /zh/; and Oj /sh/ : Un /x/.) Of course, we can imagine more complex historical connections.
Ives
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Subject: Re: Pejorative vs. Diminutive
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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