This study is the first to comprehensively describe suffixing morphology in Zhangzhou Southern Min, an under-described Sinitic language spoken in southern China.
Yishan Huang
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Exploring Creativity and Extravagance: The Case of Double Suffixation in English
There has been a recent focus in studies of English morphology on the concept of extravagance as applied to word formation, and on the interplay between extravagance and creativity.
Jim Walker
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Dissimilation in Hispano-Romance Diminutive Suffixation
A highly productive derivational process, diminutive suffixation in Spanish (e.g., gatito ~ gatiko/gatico ‘little/well-known/beloved/awful cat’ < gato ‘cat’) has received much attention in the morphology–phonology interface literature.
Claire Julia Lozano, Travis G Bradley
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Haluzárna, bafačky a homokonec: Neologismy na webu Československé filmové databáze a relevance neologismů (nejen) pro popis slovotvorby [PDF]
Studies of Czech neologisms usually focus on neologisms found in standard texts or in a collaborative online dictionary including mostly expressive words, invented words and the like.
Jakub Sláma
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Nominals with zero suffixation in Anna Akhmatova's early poems
Zero suffixation in Anna Akhmatova’s poetic texts was studied. The textual analysis of A. Akhmatova’s early poems rich in nominals with various types of zero suffixation was performed. Comparison with her later poems was carried out.
T.A. Korneyeva
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Some “gender-sensitive” derivatives ending in -kinja and the word-formation system of the Serbian language [PDF]
This paper studies the derivatives akademkinja, borkinja, poslovotkinja, psihološkinja, sutkinja, vatrogaskinja, vodičkinja, vojnikinja and related formations (hirurškinja, knjigovotkinja, virusološkinja, etc.).
Aleksić Danilo S.
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Af hverju góðlátlegur en ekki *góðleglátur? Um leyfilegar og óleyfilegar viðskeytaraðir í íslensku
The article discusses suffix combinations in Icelandic with nominal and adjectival suffixes as first members of the combinations, how common these combinations are and which selectional restrictions are central in Icelandic derivational morphology ...
Þorsteinn G. Indriðason
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WORD FORMATION – USING SUFFIXES AND IDENTIFYING DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING NEWLY-FORMED WORDS / FORMATION DES MOTS – UTILISATION DES SUFFIXES ET IDENTIFICATION DES DIFFICULTÉS DANS L'APPRENTISSAGE DES MOTS NOUVELLEMENT FORMÉS [PDF]
Word formation is a chapter of the English grammar which requires specific attention not only due to its complexity in forming new words, but also in terms of a variety of means by which it is expressed.
Laura IONICĂ
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Split and unified functions in the formation of old English nouns and adjectives
This journal article draws a distinction between the split and unified functions obtaining in the formation of Old English nouns and adjectives. The starting point of the discussion is an enlarged inventory of lexical functions that draw on Meaning-Text ...
Raquel Vea Escarza
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The results of a study of the functioning peculiarities of modified foreign anthroponyms in the Russian-language Internet discourse is presented in the article.
Y. A. Tregubova, E. V. Lavrishcheva
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