Despite the crucial dependence of synchronic meaning on both historical and cog-nitive context, we have traditionally used diierent tools for capturing synchronic and diachronic generalizations in modeling a complex semantic category like the diminutive. In the case of the diminutive, this is partly due to the extraordinary, often contradictory range its senses synchronically (small size, aaect...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Cold biopsy forceps polypectomy (CBP) is commonly used for the removal of diminutive polyps; however, evidence for the efficacy of CBP is lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the adequacy of resection of diminutive polyps and to identify predictors for complete resection using CBP. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a prospective study from a tertiary referral h...

Walman, a language in the Torricelli language spoken in Papua New Guinea has an inflectional diminutive affix which occurs in agreement slots in various words, including verbs and adjectives in opposition to third person singular masculine, third person singular feminine, and third plural. It contrasts with diminutive affixes in most languages in that (1) it cannot appear on nouns; and (2) it i...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Cold biopsy forceps polypectomy (CBP) is often used for the removal of diminutive polyps. The efficacy of the technique has not been thoroughly assessed. The aim of this study was to prospectively assess the efficacy of CBP for removing diminutive polyps. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a prospective study from St Vincent's Hospital, a tertiary referral hospital in Mel...

Serbian and Russian children produce fewer adjective-noun gender-agreement errors with diminutive nouns (e.g. ribica ‘little fish’) than with their simplex counterparts (e.g. riba ‘fish’). This study explores factors responsible for the diminutive advantage, using a gender-agreement task with Serbian-speaking children (N=24, mean age 4;4). Over four sessions, children were introduced to picture...

Our previous research showed that Russian children commit fewer gender-agreement errors with diminutive nouns than with their simplex counterparts. Experiment 1 replicates this finding with Russian children (N = 24, mean 3;7, range 2;10-4;6). Gender agreement was recorded from adjective usage as children described animal pictures given just their names, varying in derivational status (diminutiv...

In this article we examine diminutive formation in Judeo-Spanish, which has not been treated before in the generative literature. The distribution of diminutive suffixes is shown to be predictable based on an interaction of morphological and phonological properties, which is a recognized hallmark of diminutive formation in Spanish more generally. Judeo-Spanish also presents some interesting twi...

Much polypectomy and also surveillance could be avoided at essentially no risk by abandoning polypectomy of diminutive polyps (by far the most commonly detected type of polyps) altogether, at least in screening programs that foresee some type of repeated screening. In their very well conducted systematic review, Vleugels et al identified and reviewed studies reporting on the natural history of ...