EXPRESSION OF THE CATEGORY OF DIMINUTIVITY

Nina Klymenko
Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Professor, Dr. Sci. (Philol.), Head of the Department of Lexicology, Lexicography and Structural-Mathematical Linguistics, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine

Heading: Researches
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The second part of the article is dedicated to the analysis of semantic transformations of words, which encompass suffixes, formal markers of diminutive-hypocoristic meanings. Some of them have features of diminutivity: приквітничок, чашолистики. Others have undergone metaphoric shift: стрілка, човник. Some of them attesting decrease of size, generalize the meaning of formative word and add to it specialized components. A great number of biological terms indicate desemantisation of diminutives and transfer of their meanings.

Keywords: diminutivity, diminutive desemantisation, semantic word-formation, family of words, composite formation, family of nominations, term formation, specialization of meanings.

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