On a low and a high diminutive

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Abstract This chapter uses evidence from Italian and Modern Hebrew to argue for two different positions for diminutives. The first one is in the functional domain of the noun. The second one directly merges with the root. Therefore, it can occur below categorial heads. The two positions differ with respect to i) productivity, ii) compositionality of meaning, and iii) strategy of word-formation. These effects are defined in terms of syntactic structure.

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