Diminutivvariation in österreichischen elektronischen Korpora

International audienceThe distribution of the two most productive diminutive formations in Austrian Standard German (i.e. with the suffixes-chen,-erl) and their degrees of morphosemantic transparency / opacity was studied in different electronic corpora of written and oral speech which represent different genres. The distribution of morphosemantically more transparent and more opaque degrees of diminutive formation differs in these corpora