Diminutive-formation in German: Spelling out the classifier analysis

Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-46

  Ott, Dennis ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classifiers; Diminutives; German; Morphology; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651102004     PISSN: 13834924     EISSN: 15728552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10828-010-9040-x     Document Type: Article

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