Slurs with -ito in Rioplatense Spanish.
Expressive morphology, on the one hand, has been analyzed in Linguistics since the eighties. It has been analyzed as different from ordinary morphology. Slurs, on the other hand, have been studied since the beginning of the 21st century. They have been studied in relation to their pejorative content...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 61 - 76 |
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