NEUTER GENDER DIMINUTIVE SUFFIXES IN RUSSIAN IN COMPARISON TO CZECH
NEUTER GENDER DIMINUTIVE SUFFIXES IN RUSSIAN IN COMPARISON TO CZECH
Author(s): Anastasija Sokolova, Kateřina Strachotová
Subject(s): Language studies, Gender Studies, Morphology, Comparative Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages, Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: suffixes; diminutives; word-formation; Russian; Czech;
Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to the word formation of diminutive forms of nouns of the neuter gender (NG) in Russian and Czech. The paper presents diminutive suffixes of NG nouns in Russian and Czech according to grammars, as well as derivational dictionaries of both languages. In the last part of the paper, corpus data is provided regarding diminutives formed from the words слово, окно / slovo, okno that belong to the basic vocabulary of both languages.
Book: Current issues of the Russian language teaching XIV
- Page Range: 137-144
- Page Count: 8
- Publication Year: 2020
- Language: English
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