Diminutives and plurals of Dutch nouns

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  • Pius ten Hacken Swansea University

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qfilologia.18.3280

Keywords:

Parallel Architecture, inflection, word formation, diminutive, plural

Abstract

In Dutch dictionaries, nouns appear with their plural and their diminutive.
This reflects the intuition among native speakers that a noun normally has these
two related forms. Traditionally, the plural is considered inflectional whereas
the diminutive belongs to word formation. In his Parallel Architecture (PA),
Jackendoff (2002) does not distinguish word formation and inflection. Here I
argue that the Dutch contrast does not support this view. I first present plural
and diminutive as categories, then briefly introduce PA, before proposing
analyses of the plural and diminutive in Dutch.

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ten Hacken, P. (2014). Diminutives and plurals of Dutch nouns. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Lingüístics, 18, 61–70. https://doi.org/10.7203/qfilologia.18.3280
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Vol. 18 (2013): THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ADVANCES IN WORD FORMATION

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