Evaluative Morphology in Udihe

Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology, 2013. — 11 p.Udihe and other Southern Tungusic languages have a limited number of evaluatives and use them very sparingly, compared to their Northern relatives (e.g. Evenki). This discrepancy can be attributed to the fact that in Northern Tungusic languages attaching evaluative suffixes brings about unification of the diverse nominal bases and may facilitate language acquisition, while in Udihe, a language with simpler morphology, there is no comparable diminutive advantage.