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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 144. Chapters: Declension, Morphology, Grammatical gender, Germanic umlaut, Allomorph, Prefix, Uninflected word, Back-formation, Alternation, Exponent, Indo-European ablaut, Derivation, Reduplication, Diminutive, Old Norse morphology, Proto-Indo-European verbs, Germanic weak verb, Germanic strong verb, Inflection, Stemming, Hypocorism, Causative, French verb morphology, I rab, Compound, Noun class, Apophony, Consonant gradation, Lenition, Consonant mutation, Phono-semantic matching, Ottawa morphology, Germanic verb, Animacy, Rebracketing, Combining form, Hybrid word, Agglutination, Classical compound, Broken plural, Semitic root, RAS syndrome, Pluractionality, Augmentative, Grammatischer Wechsel, Righthand head rule, Productivity, Distributed morphology, Balancing and deranking, Deflexion, Suffix, Inflected preposition, Conversion, Meaning-Text Theory, Transgressive, Weak inflection, H e-conjugation theory, Word formation, Fortition, Dvandva, Clipping, Nonconcatenative morphology, Glossematics, Marker, Allocutive agreement, Periphrasis, Cheshirisation, Bahuvrihi, Tatpurusa, Affection, Zero, Realizational morphology, Unpaired word, Devi and Vrkis feminines, Terpsimbrotos, Syncretism, Morphological pattern, Mouthing, Confix, Initialized sign, East Germanic strong verb, Inflectional morphology, Agent noun, Nanosyntax, Endocentric, Derivational morphology, Morphological leveling, Metaphony, Elative, Descriptive marker, Morphogram, Morphological parsing, Fossilization, Postbase. Excerpt: In language structure, a diminutive, or diminutive form (abbreviated ), is a formation of a word used to convey a slight degree of the root meaning, smallness of the object or quality named, encapsulation, intimacy, or endearment. It is the opposite of an augmentative. While many languages apply the grammatical diminutive to nouns, a few also use it ...
