0 very small: --
1 a word or part of a word that expresses the fact that something is small, often used either to show affection or to suggest something or someone is not important: --
2 small: --
My grandmother was a diminutive woman, less than 5 feet tall.
Thirdly, diminutive morphemes increase the phonological similarity within genders.
As discussed by the author, this is due to the reliable diminutive suffixes that indicate neuter gender.
All instances of diminutives were coded for the word-class to which the diminutives were attached.
It is reflected in the use of short and grammatically less complex sentences and of diminutives and endearments with repetition.
Thus, diminutives are most likely to occur in phatic communication and vocative speech acts (subject to further pragmatic constraints).
A wedge angiogram was carried out in the left pulmonary vein demonstrating the diminutive nature of the left pulmonary artery.
In this category, plurals and diminutives are formed with the elements of the respective standard languages.
Note, however, that there was no direct transfer of gender from diminutive training items to the respective nontransparent simplex forms of nouns presented during testing.
