{"title":"The productivity of Dutch diminutives","authors":"Rosita van Tuijl, P. Coopmans","doi":"10.1075/avt.00053.tui","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This study reports on an investigation of the productivity of the Dutch diminutive paradigm, which gives rise to\n five suffixal allomorphs, against the background of Yang’s (2016) Tolerance Principle.\n It shows how, by studying the frequency of the allomorphs and the environments in which they occur, we can use the Tolerance\n Principle to determine if a productive rule system can be found for the Dutch diminutives. In doing so, we also describe how we\n collected the necessary data by setting up a corpus study on Dutch diminutives, including a specific one with data from child\n directed speech.","PeriodicalId":35138,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics in the Netherlands","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Linguistics in the Netherlands","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00053.tui","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study reports on an investigation of the productivity of the Dutch diminutive paradigm, which gives rise to
five suffixal allomorphs, against the background of Yang’s (2016) Tolerance Principle.
It shows how, by studying the frequency of the allomorphs and the environments in which they occur, we can use the Tolerance
Principle to determine if a productive rule system can be found for the Dutch diminutives. In doing so, we also describe how we
collected the necessary data by setting up a corpus study on Dutch diminutives, including a specific one with data from child
directed speech.
期刊介绍:
Linguistics in the Netherlands is a series of annual publications, sponsored by the Dutch Linguistics Association (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap) and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company since Volume 8 in 1991. Each volume contains a careful selection through peer review of papers presented at the annual meeting of the society. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. Each volume presents an overview of research in different fields of linguistics in the Netherlands containing articles on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.