@article{oai:kumadai.repo.nii.ac.jp:00022021, author = {西川, 盛雄 and Nishikawa, Morio}, journal = {熊本大学教育学部紀要 人文科学}, month = {Dec}, note = {application/pdf, 論文(Article), The purpose of this paper is to explore some aspects of English diminutives in terms of the cognitive and pragmatic perspective of language. The concatenation of morphological units of morpheme builds up a word whether it is derivational or inflectional. Inflections undertake the syntactic facets of tense for verbs, plural for nouns, and case for nouns. Neither the grammatical category of base word nor its core meaning is changed in inflection by any means.}, pages = {59--69}, title = {A Cognitive and Pragmatic Study of Diminutives}, volume = {57}, year = {2008} }