SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF DIMINUTIVES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGE

Abstract

Language (e.g., structure, morphology, and wording) can direct our attention toward the specific properties of an object, in turn influencing the mental representation of that same object. In this paper, we examined this idea by focusing on a particular linguistic form of diminution used in English and Uzbek languages to refer to an object as being “smaller.” Diminutive research is often too narrowly focused on suffixed nouns, while other types of diminutive