Diminutives in greek and italian: theory of morphopragmatics
- Katsaros, Panagiotis
- Κατσαρός, Παναγιώτης
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This thesis is the application of the theory of morphopragmatics, part of the natural morphology developed for Italian by Dressler & M. Barbaresi (1994); such an in-depth analysis of modern Greek has never before been conducted. The aim of this work is to present a study of the productive morphology of Modern Greek in the light of the theoretical approach of Dressler & M. Barbaresi, adding research findings through the comparison of universal preferences with those of Italian with scientific breadth and documentation.Diminutives have had a long-standing presence in the linguistic research conducted on both Italian and Modern Greek, although the absence of an integrated approach that simultaneously studies morphological and pragmatic phenome...
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