Към словообразуването в банатския говор
On the wordformation in the Bulgarian dialect of Banat

Summary/Abstract: The present research deals with several wordformation peculiarities in the dialect of the Bulgarians living in Banat, which characterize it as a typical mixed language. Among others they are: 1. Parallelism and synonymy of motivated words, that is to say the existence of derived words with identical suffixes but comming from different bases (e.g. струкàр // струнгàр ‘turner’) or the existence of synonymous derived words with different suffixes but comming from identical bases (e.g. луфчùйа // луфчùин // луфчềр // лòвник’ ‘hunter’; к’ириджùйа // к’ирийàш ‘hirer’); 2. The occurrence of pleonastic suffixes, which are semantically redundant, as for example the suffix -аш in the noun газдàш that means just the same as the basic noun гàзда ‘a wealthy man; a man of wealth’, or the suffix -ул’ in the noun бàчул’ that signifies the same as the basic noun бач ‘Romanian who sells apples in the villages of Banat’ etc.; 3. The occurrence of hybrid derived words, such as the words formed by means of the international suffix -атор (-атòр // -àтур) from the native bases, as for example in the nouns: пазатòр ‘a thrifty man’, прусàтур ‘an intermediary in matters of marriage’ etc.; 4. The occurrence of suffixes which are unknown in the Bulgarian language or occur with a different function, as for example the suffix -шàк in the noun газдашàк ‘a property; a great wealth’ (cf. the above-mentioned гàзда, газдàш ‘a wealthy man; a man of wealth’). Thus, a good deal of the derived words in this Bulgarian dialect have morphems originating from several other languages like: German, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian.

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