Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains -- Part I: Theoretical approaches to diminutive formation -- 2 On a low and a high position for diminutive non-manual markers in Italian Sign Language -- 3 Diminutive or singulative? The suffixes -in and -k in Russian -- 4 Slavic diminutive morphology: An interplay of scope, templates and paradigms -- 5 Diminutive formation in Spanish: Evidence for word morphology -- 6 The syllable as the basis for word formation: Evidence from diminutives, hypocoristics and clippings in English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish and French -- Part II: Corpus-based and other empirical studies -- 7 The Swedish suffix -is and its place within evaluative morphology -- 8 Diminutives and number: Theoretical predictions and empirical evidence from German in Austria -- 9 Diminutive verbs in the Austrian language area: Morphological and semantic challenges -- 10 Challenges in analyzing Polish diminutives -- 11 Diminutives among other -k(a) words in colloquial Russian: Frequency and suffix variation -- Part III: Sociolinguistic, pragmatic and acquisitional studies -- 12 Borrowed or inspired? Komi diminutive under Russian influence -- 13 Acquisition of diminutives in Russian and Estonian from a typological perspective -- 14 Morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German and English diminutives -- 15 Diminutive variation in Austrian Standard German: A corpuslinguistic study -- 16 Gender discrepancies and evaluative gender shift: A cross-linguistic study within Distributed Morphology -- Index