Citations:hypercoristic

unclear meaning (possibly the same as below)

 * 1991, William A. Foley, The Yimas Language of New Guinea (Stanford University Press, ISBN 9780804715829), page 139 (note: does not use "hypocoristic" anywhere in the work):
 * As the above examples clearly demonstrate, stems ending in other segments exhibit some variation. All dual forms with obligatory /n/ and /t/ epenthesis, of course, exist in those forms only, but those without have hypercoristic alternative forms in which these rules apply. So, alternating with awak-rm star-DL 'two stars', there is the acceptable, albeit less common, awak-ntrm.


 * 1999, Sara E. Kimball, Hittite historical phonology (Institut Fur Sprachwissenschaft Der Universitat Innsbruck) (note: does not use "hypocoristic" anywhere in the work):
 * page 96:
 * [...] hypercoristic geminates (e.g. an-na- "mother", at-ta- "father", ha-an-na- "grandmother") [...]
 * page 153:
 * In general, reflexes of accented vowels are not spelled with plene writing before geminates from consonant plus laryngeal and before hypercoristic, or expressive, geminates.
 * page 307:
 * Clear examples of the treatment after *ā, *ī, or *ū are lacking, although anna- "mother" and hanna- "grandmother" show hypercoristic gemination after *ā.


 * 2012, Robert McColl Millar, English Historical Sociolinguistics (Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 9780748664382), page 13 (note: does not use "hypocoristic" anywhere in the work):
 * The lower middle classes of the English midlands and north in particular have assimilated the southern vowel, however, often through elocution classes, at least in the past. The fact that hypercoristic pronunciations such as /kʌp əv ˈʃʌɡə/ (for &#39;cup of sugar&#39;) exist demonstrates how salient this feature is to the identity construction of speakers from these backgrounds.

misconstruction of or error for 'hypocoristic'

 * 1902, The Osprey, page 3 (note: does not use "hypocoristic" anywhere in the work):
 * Bird belongs to what philologists designate as the hypercoristic class or, in plain English, pet names.


 * 2000, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Proceedings: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pages 141 and 142 (note: does not use "hypocoristic" anywhere in the work):
 * Benua posits a constraint against word-final sequences of a followed by r in these dialects, based on an apparent distributional gap. The sequence in question does occur, but only in hypercoristic forms such as those listed in (13) which ...
 * The absence of *Sarry, however, demonstrates that the truncated form need not be related to a disyllabic hypercoristic.
 * The absence of *Sarry, however, demonstrates that the truncated form need not be related to a disyllabic hypercoristic.


 * 2014, Rachel Bromwich, Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain (University of Wales Press, ISBN 9781783161461), page 275 (work also uses "hypocoristic" once):
 * &#39;A. the Little Bard&#39; or, as suggested by Bedwyr Lewis Jones, if this is a hypercoristic, &#39;A. the Favourite Bard&#39; (TAAS 1973, p. 194).


 * 2016, Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume Two (NYU Press, ISBN 9781479892389), page 478:
 * I.e., because it is diminutive and hence hypercoristic.