Morphosyntactic properties of short first names (hypocoristics) in Russian.
This is a study of Russian short first names (or ‘hypocoristics’) formed by a truncation of the corresponding full name. I propose that, syntactically, hypocoristics are associated with their own noun head that occupies a particular hierarchical position in a syntactic tree. This noun head is specif...
| Publicado en: | Russian Linguistics Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 57 - 69 |
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