Diminutives in Action: A cognitive account of diminutive verbs and their suffixes in Croatian

This paper deals with a semantic analysis of diminutive verbs in Croatian, focusing on diminutive verbs formed by diminutive suffixes. In order to account for the semantic properties of diminutive verbs, a cognitive linguistic framework is adopted and a radial category model of diminutive verb seman...

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Matična publikacija: Suvremena lingvistika
75 (2013), str. 1-23
Glavni autor: Katunar, Daniela (-)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
Online pristup: http://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/636709.sl75_1_katunar_izvorni.pdf
http://suvlin.ffzg.hr/index.php/trenutni-broj/482-deminutivi-na-djelu-kognitivnolingvisticka-analiza-deminutivnih-glagola-tvorenih-sufiksacijom-u-hrvatskome
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