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Evaluative suffixes in Archaic Latin: A cognitive morpho-pragmatic account for –ellus/-illus in Plautus

A preliminary investigation on Latin diminutives conducted within a framework that holds together the synchronic and diachronic explanation model of polysemy elaborated in Cognitive Linguistics and morpho-pragmatic studies on diminutives

Suffissi valutativi in Plauto: una proposta cognitivista e morfo-pragmatica

2020

Latin evaluative suffixes, especially diminutives, have received considerable attention in the relevant literature, but a morphologicalpragmatic analysis of their uses is still lacking. This work aims at analysing the behavior of the archaic Latin suffix -llus within a theoretical framework combining ressler – Merlini Barbaresi’s (1994) morpho-pragmatic model and the cognitive perspective on polysemy and the pragmatic polyfunctionality of evaluative suffixes. As an evaluative suffix,, -llus is used with a proper diminutive function that adds to the base the semantic component 'small'. In many cases, however, -llus plays a function related to the complex system of relations between the speak…