query: typological work on augmentatives?

[Suzanne Kemmer]

Posting the following query on behalf of Ben Chauvette. You can contact him directly
at chauvette at rice.edu
He is not only interested in morphological augmentatives, but any partially grammaticalized augmentative constructions; also
anything pertaining to lexical sources, polysemies,
augmentation in particular languages, families, or areas; 
and just generally anything potentially relevant to cross-linguistic generalizations about them.
Thanks!!
--Suzanne Kemmer

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Does anyone know of any typological or cognitive work that focuses
primarily on augmentatives?

I am familiar with the general literature dealing with diminutive and
augmentative morphology (e.g. Scalise 1984 and responses thereto; Matisoff
1992, Dressler & Barbaresi 1994; Jurafsky 1996), but am curious if there is
any other research, particularly unpublished manuscripts, that I am
overlooking.

Grandi's (2002) work on the Mediterranean area is great, but I have not
found anything similar for other areas.


Best,
Ben Chauvette


References
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Dressler, W.U. & L.M. Barbaresi. 1994. Morphopragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter.

Grandi, N. 2002. Development and Spread of Augmentative Suffixes in the
Mediterranean Area, in P. Ramat and T. Stolz (eds.), *Mediterranean
Languages, *171-190. Bochum: Dr. Brockmeyer University Press.

Jurafsky, D. 1996. Universal Tendencies in the Semantics of the Diminutive.
*Language* 72. 533-578.

Matisoff, J.A. 1992. The Mother of All Morphemes: augmentatives and
diminutives in a real and universal perspective, in M. Ratliff and E.
Schiller (eds.), *Papers from the First Annual Meeting of the Southeast
Asian Linguistics Society,* 293-349.

Scalise, S. 1984. *Generative Morphology.* Dordrecht: Foris.