Diminutives: A bibliography

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Alber, B., & Arndt-Lappe, S. (2012). Templatic and subtractive truncation. In J. Trommer (Ed.), The morphology and phonology of exponence (pp. 289–325). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
Aronoff, Mark (1994). Morphology by itself. Cambridge, Ma: MIT.
Aronoff, Mark & Nanna Fuhrhop (2002). Restricting suffix combinations in German and English: Closing suffixes and the monosuffix constraint. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20: 451−490.
Arsenijević, Boban (2016). Gender, like classifiers, marks uniform atomicity: Evidence from Serbo-Croatian. CLS (Chicago Linguistic Society) 52, University of Chicago, 21-23. 4. 2016.
Beyersmann, Elisabeth & Ziegler, Johannes C. & Castles, Anne & Coltheart, Max & Kezilas, Yvette & Grainger, Jonathan (2016). Morpho-orthographic segmentation without semantics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 23(2). 533–539.

Blevins, James P. (2006). Word-based morphology. J. Linguistics 42: 531–573.


Bobaljik, Jonathan (2017). Distributed Morphology. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Retrieved 17 Jun. 2020, from https://oxfordre.com/linguistics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.001.0001/acrefore-9780199384655-e-131.
Bonami, Olivier & Jana Strnadová (2019). Paradigm structure and predictability in derivationalmorphology. Morphology 29(2): 167–197.
Bonet, Eulàlia & Daniel Harbour (2012). Contextual Allomorphy. In J. Trommer (ed.) The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence, 195-235. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Booij, Geert (1996). Inherent versus contextual inflection and the split morphology hypothesis. In G. Booij & J. van Marle (eds.) Yearbookof Morphology 1995, 1–16.
Booij, Geert (2010). Construction Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bybee, Joan L. (1985). Morphology: A study of the relation between meaning and form. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Caha, Pavel (2020). Nanosyntax: some key features. Ms., submitted to the Handbook of Distributed Morphology, lingbuzz/004437.
Cinque, Guglielmo (2015). Augmentative, pejorative, diminutive and endearing heads in the extended nominal projection. In E. DiDomenico, C. Hamann & S. Matteini (eds.) Structures, strategies and beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti, 67–82. Amsterdam:Benjamins.
Cinque, Guglielmo & Luigi Rizzi (2015). The Cartography of Syntactic Structures. In B. Heine & H. Narrog (eds.) The Oxford Handbook ofLinguistic Analysis, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Creemers, Ava., Jan Don & Paula Fenger (2018). Some affixes are roots, others are heads. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 36: 45–84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-017-9372-1
Crepaldi, Davide & Hemsworth, Lara & Davis, Colin J. & Rastle, Kathleen (2016). Masked suffix priming and morpheme positional constraints. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 69(1). 113–128.
De Belder, Marijke (2011). Roots and affixes, eliminating lexical categories from syntax. PhD diss., Utrecht University.
De Belder, Marijke, Noam Faust & Nicola Lampitelli. 2014. On a low and a high diminutive: evidence from Italian and Hebrew. In: A. Alexiadou, H. Borer, and F. Schäfer (eds.), The syntax of roots and the roots of syntax, 149–63. OUP.
Doleschal, U. & A. Thornton (2000). Extragrammatical and marginal morphology. München: Lincom.
Dressler, Wolfgang U. (1989). Prototypical differences between inflection and derivation. Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung 42: 3-10.
Dressler,Wolfgang U., Willi Mayerthaler, Oswald Panagl & Wolfgang U. Wurzel (1987). Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Dressler, Wolfgang U. & Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi (1994). Morphopragmatics: diminutives and intensifiers in Italian, German, and other languages. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Dressler, Wolfgang U. & Katharina Korecky-Kröll (2015). Evaluative morphology and language acquisition. In Nicola Grandi & Livia Körtvélyessy (eds.). Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology, 134-141. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Dressler, Wolfgang U., Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi, Sonja Schwaiger, Jutta Ransmayr, Sabine Sommer-Lolei & Katharina Korecky-Kröll(2019). Rivalry and lack of blocking among Italian and German diminutives in adult and child language. In F. Rainer, F. Gardani, W.U.Dressler & H.C. Luschützky (eds.) Competition in Inflection and Word Formation, 123–143. Cham: Springer.
Embick, David (2010). Localism versus Globalism in Morphology and Phonology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Fruchter, Joseph & Alec Marantz (2015). Decomposition, lookup, and recombination: MEG evidence for the Full Decomposition model of complex visual word recognition. Brain and Language 143: 81–96.
Fruchter, Joseph, Linnaea Stockall & Alec Marantz (2013). MEG masked priming evidence for form-based decomposition of irregular verbs. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7: 1–16.
Gouskova, Maria & Jonathan D. Bobaljik (to appear). The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby-diminutive -onok. Toappear in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, also lingbuzz/005660
Gouskova, Maria & Jonathan D. Bobaljik. 2020. Allomorphy and Vocabulary Insertion, lingbuzz/005388
Grandi, N. & F. Montermini. 2005. Prefix-Suffix Neutrality In Evaluative Morphology. In G. Booij, E. Guevara, A. Ralli, S. Sgroi & S. Scalise (eds.), Morphology and Linguistic Typology. Online Proceedings of the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM4) Catania 21-23 September 2003. University of Bologna. URL http://morbo.lingue.unibo.it/mmm/.
Grandi, N. 2011. Renewal and innovation in the emergence of Indo-European evaluative morphology. In Diminutives and Augmentatives in the Languages of the World. Lexis: e-J. Engl. Lexicology 6, eds. Lívia Körtvélyessy and Pavol Stekauer, 5–25. http://lexis.revues.orgimg/pdf/Lexis_6.pdf
Grandi, N. and L. Kortvelyessy (eds.). (2015). Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology, 296 - 305. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Grestenberger, Laura & Dalina Kallulli (2019). The largesse of diminutives: suppressing the projection of roots. In M. Baird & J. Pesetsky (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 49, Cornell University, Oct. 5-7, 2018, vol. 2, 61–74. Amherst: GLSA. Available at: https://lauragrestenberger.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/grestenberger_kallulli_diminutives.pdf
Halle, Morris & Alec Marantz (1993). Distributed morphology and the pieces of inflection. In Kenneth Hale & Samuel Jay Keyser (eds.), The view from building 20, 111–176. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hammarström, Harald & Borin, Lars. (2011). Unsupervised learning of morphology. Computational Linguistics 37(2). 309–350.
Hay, Jennifer (2001). Lexical Frequency in Morphology: Is Everything Relative? Linguistics 39: 1041–1070.
Hay, Jennifer (2002). From Speech Perception to Morphology: Affix-ordering Revisited. Language 78: 527–555.
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Ivanova-Mircheva, D. & I. Xaralampiev (1999). Istorija na bǎlgarskija ezik / A History of the Bulgarian Language. Veliko Tǎrnovo: Faber.
Jurafsky, D. (1996). Universal tendencies in the semantics of the diminutive. Language 72(3): 533–577.
Korecky-Kröll, Katharina & Wolfgang U. Dressler (2007). Diminutives and hypocoristics in Austrian German (AG). In Ineta Savickienė & Wolfgang U. Dressler. eds. The acquisition of diminutives. A cross-linguistic perspective, 207-230. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Körtvélyessy, Lívia (2015). Evaluative morphology from a cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Kramer, Ruth (2015). The Morphosyntax of Gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kučerová, Ivona (2018). φ-features at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Evidence from Nominal Inflection. Linguistic Inquiry 49(4). 813-845.
Lappe, S. (2007). English prosodic morphology. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Lázaro, M, V. Illera & J. Sainz (2016). The suffix priming effect: Further evidence for an early morpho-orthographic segmentation process independent of its semantic content. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 69(1): 197-208.
Lowenstamm, Jean (2015). Derivational affixes as roots: Phasal spell-out meets English stress shift. In Artemis Alexiadou, Hagit Borer & Florian Schäfer (eds.) The syntax of roots and the roots of syntax, 230–259. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Manova, Stela (2010). Suffix Combinations in Bulgarian: Parsability and Hierarchy-Based Ordering. Morphology 20:1, 267-296.
Manova, Stela (2011). Understanding Morphological Rules: With Special Emphasis on Conversion and Subtraction in Bulgarian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. Dordrecht: Springer.
Manova , S (2015). Closing suffixes. In Müller, P.; I. Ohnheiser; S. Olsen & F. Rainer (eds.). Word-Formation in the European Languages . Vol. 2. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 40/2, 956-971. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
Manova, S. (2015). Affix order and the structure of the Slavic word. In Affix ordering across languages and frameworks , ed. by S. Manova, 205-230. New York: Oxford University Press.
Manova, S. (2019, updated version of 2016 bibliography). Subtractive Morphology. Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0116.
Manova , S (2020). Subtraction in Morphology. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Morphology). New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.572.
Manova, Stela (to appear). Ordering restrictions between affixes. To appear in P. Ackema, S. Bendjaballah, E. Bonet & A. Fábregas (eds.)The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, also lingbuzz/006219
Manova, Stela & Kimberley Winternitz (2011). Suffix order in double and multiple diminutives: with data from Polish and Bulgarian. Studies in Polish Linguistics 6: 115-138. URL: http://www.ejournals.eu/SPL/2011/SPL-vol-6-2011/art/1169/
Manova, Stela, Dušan Ptáček & Renáta Gregová (2017). Second-grade diminutives in Czech and Slovak: A contrastive study with data from corpora. In Luka Repanšek & Matej Šekli (eds.). 12. letno srečanje Združenja za slovansko jezikoslovje / 12th Slavic Linguistics Society Annual Meeting / XII ежегодная конференция Общества славянского языкознания. Ljubljana, Slovenia, Sept. 21-24. Založba ZRC, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, pp. 121-122. ISBN 978-961-05-0027-8.
Manova, S., D. Sitchinava & M. Shvedova (2019). The concept of young animal (Proto-Slavic *nt-stems) and diminutivization in modern Slavic languages. Presentation at the 52 nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea , Leipzig, Aug. 21-24.
Manova, Stela, Harald Hammarström, Itamar Kastner & Yining Nie (2020). What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental and computational approaches to the relation of meaning and form in morphology. Word Structure 13(1): 1-21.
Manova, Stela & Georgia Knell (2021). Two-suffix combinations in native and non-native English: Novel evidence for morphomicstructures. In S. Moradi, M. Haag, J. Rees-Miller & A. Petrovic (eds.) All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, 305-323. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Merlini Barbaresi, Lavinia (2012). Combinatorial patterns among Italian evaluative affixes. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 9(1): 2-14. URL: http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL20/pdf_doc/1.pdf
Oltra-Massuet, Isabel & Elena Castroviejo (2014). A syntactic approach to the morpho-semantic variation of -ear. Lingua 151: 120-41.
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Plag, Ingo & Harald Baayen (2009). Suffix Ordering and Morphological Processing. Language 85: 109–152.
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Simonović, Marko & Boban Arsenijević (2015). Just small or small and related: On two kinds of diminutives in Serbo-Croatian. Presented at TIN-dag, 7 February 2015, Utrecht: https://www.academia.edu/10675378/Just_small_or_small_and_related_On_two_kinds_of_diminutives_in_Serbo-Croatian
Steriopolo, O. (2009). Form and function of expressive morphology: A case study of Russian. Russian Language Journal 59: 149–194.
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