Деминутивна образовања у Речнику говора Загарача

Abstract

Although in Vocabulary of Speech of Zagarač all diminutive formations according to the entries of the Vocabulary were not recorded, the wealth of diminutive lexics in the speech of Zagarač ts still noted (the analysis covered more than 200 of such lexemes). In addition to diminutives there also were treated the diminutoids, lexemes which are not that any longer but once they had been diminutives, and which also presently have some diminutive character. There are many diminutives which at the same time are hypocoristics. The diminutives (and diminutoids) are classified in the paper according to the forms and meanings of the roots or stem of the diminutive, according to suffixes and to prefixes. In the corps there are elementary words with diminutive suffixes, derivatives with diminutive suffixes, as well as prefix-suffix lexemes of diminutive meaning. Suffixes that occur most frequently are: -ica, -(7)i? and -ak, and prefixes: za-, pod- and s(u)-.