Dianne Bardsley
List of John Benjamins publications for which Dianne Bardsley plays a role.
Article
2009 Hypocoristics in New Zealand and Australian English Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Article
New Zealand and Australia share a propensity to create new words and hypocoristic forms of existing words by adding -ie and -o suffixes (among others) to a base which is usually monosyllabic. While the creation of new words is driven by the need to refer quickly to new things, the creation of… read more