PRODUCTIVITY OF THE SUFFIX –ER IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN
PRODUCTIVITY OF THE SUFFIX –ER IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to shed some light on the productive use of the suffix -er in English and German, which, from the word-formation point of view, is the same derivation suffix to express the identical meanings. However the article investigates word-formative patterns for nomina agentis in English and German from a phonological-morphological and semantic-syntactical point of view. One common tendency found is that both languages have a stable word-formative pattern for building nomina agentis with suffix -er.

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