Affrication Diminutive Marker (Re: butterfly)

Thu Nov 13 15:29:13 UTC 2003

At 14:22 13.11.03 +0000, bi1 at soas.ac.uk wrote:
>Cree does something similar I believe turning -t- into -c- for diminutive
>uses, though I can't think of an example not having my Cree books
>here.

atim "dog" -> acim "doggie", though this is only a relic of a more
productive grade system (which is probably what should be
phenomenologically compared to the Siouan system) as outlined by Proulx in
one of his first articles in IJAL (1984 IIRC) on Comparative Algic.

Best,

Heike