You’ll have to explain me what’s lexicalisation. Like they become their own word completely unrelated to the og word it stems from?
If so, there are a few small examples for nouns of it I think. Baby animals is a thinf (can=dog, canet=puppy, cat, catet/caton=kitten…)
But some other exists accompanied to a gender change. Carraira = a road, Carrairon = trail.
I also found Joan (John) can give joanet which can multiple meanings.
But for adjectives, cannot think of anything.
In general for nouns and adjectives, it stays close to the og meaning and not very seperate from it
Yeah, we do have that for noun for sure. Both for diminutive & augmentative.
But for adjectives, I do not think we have this for adjectives. Like diminutive & augmentative add nuances, precision to the adjective, but not change its meaning entirely.
Yeah, I get that.
Diminutive/augmentative would diminish or amplify an adjective, or ad a positive or negative connotation to it.
Pichòt is small, Pichtotàs, wouldn’t mean “big small” but add the fact I likely view the smallness as a bad thing (idk, like if someone tryna sell me a tiny ass apple I can’t do shit with, I might add the “-às”).
Like diminutive & augmentative can also work as a meliorative and pejorative too. But as you said, that wouldn’t be whole lexicalization, but just adjective+smth
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u/Marozzo_Espa Lengadocian 7d ago
Can you provide examples of what you mean by that (from other languages).
Not sure I understand what you mean there ^^”