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Publication details [#17761]

Dressler, Wolfgang U. and Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi. 1994. Morphopragmatics: Diminutives and intensifiers in Italian, German, and other languages. De Gruyter Mouton. 682 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

Despite the declared ambition to examine morphopragmatics, i.e. "how pragmatics and morphology meet and become mutually relevant", this book mainly deals with evaluative morphological devices (diminutives and intensifiers) in Italian, German and English, focusing on their pragmatic properties.

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