WAYS OF EXPRESSING THE CATEGORY OF DIMINUTIVENESS IN ENGLISH

Abstract

This paper studies the different opinions of linguists and their approaches to the category of diminutiveness in English. Based on Schneider’s work (2003), who distinguishes synthetic and analytic diminutives, an overview of the types of diminutive formation and their specific features has been suggested. In addition to the examples given by researchers, the paper offers examples and conclusions based on the author’s own corpus of excerpted data. This analysis is part of a bigger research project included in the author’s doctoral thesis.