This book reviews and debates the latest theoretical approaches to
evaluative morphology. This handbook covers the field of evalautive
morphology i.e. the morphological processes used in word formation
of diminutives, augmentatives, prejoratives and amelioratives. It
maps the theoretical achievements in the field and offers
innovative approaches to the major questions. Its discusses the
scope of evaluative morphology, its formal, semantic, pragmatic,
sociolinguistic and word formation issues and its relation to child
language acquistion. It covers both the synchronic method and
dischronic perspective, and analyses evaluative morphology in
selected language families. The majority of chapters make use of
extensive databases to support theoretical considerations with
relevant, empirical data in order to provide a comprehensive and in
depth picture of the field. Divided into 2 distinct parts, the
handbook begins with 13 chapters discussing evaluative morphology
in relation to areas such as pragmatics, semantics, linguistic
universals and sociolinguistics. The second part is comprised of
descriptive chapters, broken into the following subsets: Eurasia,
South East Asia and Oceania, Australia New Guinea, Africa, North
America and South America. This is the first volume to
comprehensively review and evaluate the field. It's theoretical
chapters are based on extensive language samples. It explains on
going professional development and practice based and action
research. It features 70 contributors based in 31 different
countries: Basque, Catalan, Georgian, Hungarian, Israeli Hebrew,
Ket, Latvian, Luxemburgeois, Modern Greek, Nivkh, Persian, Slovak,
Swedish, Tatar, Telugu, Udihe, Apma, Chinese, Lisu, Muna, Tagalog,
Tibetan, Yami, Dalabon, Iatmul, Jingulu, Kaurna, Rembarrnga,
Warlpiri, Yukulta and its relatives Kayardild and Lardil, Berber,
Classical and Moroccan Arabic, Ewe, Konni, Selee, Shona, Somali,
Zulu, Choctaw, Dena'ina, Huave, Inuktitut, Plains Cree, Slavey,
Cabecar, Jaqaru, Kwaza, Lule, Huautla Mazatec, Toba, Wichi, and,
Yurakare.
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