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The Competition of German Adjectival Suffixes
The Competition of German Adjectival Suffixes

Author(s): Filip Kalaš
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: suffix; derived adjective; productivity; general corpus; specialised context

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a corpus linguistic perspective on two adjectival suffixes -al and -ell in the German language. Its attention is focused on the distributional frequency of the derived adjectives, the semantic motivation and contextual occurrence through the lens of retried adjective + noun collocations. On top of that, the paper attempts to determine the superiority of such derived adjectives in the specialised vocabulary.

  • Issue Year: 74/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 81-91
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English