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Diminutive suffixes
ŠMEJKALOVÁ, Svatava
This thesis deals with the process of diminutive alteration in Italian language. The alteration is the process which creates diminutives mainly from nouns, but also from another parts of speech. It is a highly productive tool for word formation in Italian and in Czech language too. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical one. In the first part, the term of diminutive alteration is defined, using the specialized literature, and the process of formation of diminutives in Italian is also described in this part. One part compares the formation of diminutives in Italian and in Czech language. The second part deals with the analysis of a sample of Italian diminutives. The analysis concentrates on the productivity of suffixes, on a characterization of basis and their combination. There is a description of the behaviour of the suffixes and there are introduced the examples of use of the diminutives and their meaning. The aim of the thesis is to find characteristic qualities and behaviour of the diminutive suffixes and to describe the process of alteration.

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