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Emotional valuation in Dalabon diminutives

Maïa Ponsonnet
Nicholas Evans
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Dalabon is a polysynthetic language of Northern Australia, with only half a dozen remaining speakers. It belongs to the non-Pama-Nyungan Gunwinyguan family. There are no augmentative devices in Dalabon. Diminutives, on the other hand, are frequent in emotional speech, but have not previously been reported for the language. One reason is that they do not occur with equal frequency in all contexts, and it was the deployment of methods designed to elicit emotion-laden speech in Dalabon as part of the first author's doctoral thesis (Ponsonnet 2014) which brought a much higher proportion of diminutive use. This short chapter presents these findings, and the methods which brought them about.
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Maïa Ponsonnet, Nicholas Evans. Emotional valuation in Dalabon diminutives. Nicola Grandi; Livia Körtvélyessy. Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology, Edinburgh University Press, pp.401-407, 2015, 978-0-7486-8174-7. ⟨hal-03807389⟩
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