[Lingtyp] query: verbal diminutives

[Guillaume Jacques]

Some Algonquian languages have verbal diminutive conjugations, for instance
Fox (see Goddard 1994) and some varieties of Cree, and it is possible that
the negative suffix found in Ojibwe-Potawatomi (-sii) and in Miami-Illinois
(-hsii/-hsoo) is derived from it (Costa 2003:335).


References
Goddard, Ives (1994) Leonard Bloomfield's Fox lexicon. Winnipeg :
Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics.
Costa, David 2003. The Miami-Illinois language. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press.
https://books.google.fr/books?id=qCyE8fR12HsC&pg=PA335#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.fr/books?id=qCyE8fR12HsC&pg=PA347#v=onepage&q&f=false



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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.
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>>>> We will post a summary.
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Guillaume Jacques
CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO
http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques
http://panchr.hypotheses.org/
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