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On the polysemy of agentive suffixes in English and Croatian: comparing -er and -ač
Mirjana Marković (2015)
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature
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Marković, M. (2015). On the polysemy of agentive suffixes in English and Croatian: comparing -er and -ač (Undergraduate thesis). Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:649177

Marković, Mirjana. "On the polysemy of agentive suffixes in English and Croatian: comparing -er and -ač." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:649177

Marković, Mirjana. "On the polysemy of agentive suffixes in English and Croatian: comparing -er and -ač." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:649177

Marković, M. (2015). 'On the polysemy of agentive suffixes in English and Croatian: comparing -er and -ač', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 20 November 2019, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:649177

Marković M. On the polysemy of agentive suffixes in English and Croatian: comparing -er and -ač [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2015 [cited 2019 November 20] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:649177

M. Marković, "On the polysemy of agentive suffixes in English and Croatian: comparing -er and -ač", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2015. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:649177

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TitleOn the polysemy of agentive suffixes in English and Croatian: comparing -er and -ač
Title (croatian)O polisemiji agentivnih sufiksa u engleskom i hrvatskom: usporedba sufiksa -er i sufiksa -ač
AuthorMirjana Marković
MentorGabrijela Buljan (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2015-09-09, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Croatian Studies
Abstract
This paper deals with the semantic roles of nouns that end in –er in English and in –ač in Croatian. Both suffixes are productive in their respective languages. The goal of the research was to see which semantic roles can be taken by words formed with each of these suffixes. With the help of a theoretical overview and a research conducted in the corpora of English and Croatian, it was discovered that the suffix –er is much more polysemous than the suffix –ač, since it is productive in the formation of the majority of semantic roles in varying degrees. The suffix –ač is only productive in the formation of agent and instrument nouns. The suffix –er also attaches to a greater variety of bases than the suffix –ač. What can also be seen from the results of the research is that single English words with the suffix –er can more commonly take different semantic roles in context than the Croatian ones with the suffix –ač.
Keywords
Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:649177
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Croatian Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) hrvatskog jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) hrvatskog jezika i književnosti)
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