Feature GB188: Is there any productive augmentative marking on the noun (exclude marking by system of nominal classification only)?

Patrons: Jeremy Collins and Jay Latarche

Description ⇫

Summary

Augmentative marking generally intensifies the noun (in various ways). To code 1, the marker needs to minimally encode a large size of the noun it is attached to. This needs to be a productive pattern.

Procedure

  1. Code 1 if there is a morpheme which is phonologically bound to nouns and which denotes a large version of the noun it is attached to.
  2. Code 0 if augmentatives are only expressed by a shift of gender/noun class and consider GB314.
  3. Code 0 if the author states there are no augmentative markers or if there is extensive evidence of their absence.
  4. Code ? if there is not enough evidence.

Examples

Hixkaryana (ISO 639-3: hix, Glottolog: hixk1239)

Coded 1. There is a phonologically bound augmentative marker on the noun marking larger size (Derbyshire 1979:83-4).

toto-ymo
person-AUG
the big man’

Tehuelche (ISO 639-3: teh, Glottolog: tehu1242)

Coded 0. Augmentative marking is not observed, neither in grammatical sections, nor in sample texts (Fernández Garay 2004:9-29).

Further reading

Dahl, Östen. 2006. Diminutives and augmentatives. In Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 594–595. Second edition. Oxford: Elsevier.

Shepardson, Kenneth N. 1982. An integrated analysis of Swahili augmentative-diminutives. Studies in African linguistics, 13(1). 53–76.

References

Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1979. Hixkaryana. (Lingua Descriptive Studies, 1.) Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Fernández Garay, Ana. 2004. Diccionario Tehuelche-Español / índice Español-Tehuelche. (Indigenous Languages of Latin America, 4.) Leiden: CNWS Publications.


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