Produktywne typy słowotwórcze odprzymiotnikowych osobowych nazw nosicieli cech z formantami sufiksalnymi w języku białoruskim
Productive word-formation types of deadjectival personal names of feature bearers with suffixes in Belarusian

Author(s): Agnieszka Goral
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Belarussian Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: personal names; noun derivatives; suffixation; attributive names; Belarusian language
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the personal names of feature bearers in Belarusian. Over 200 noun derivatives formed by suffixation from adjective and adjectival participle stems were analyzed. The material comes from the author’s file and Belarusian lexicographical sources and scientific works. The lexical corpus is presented according to the most productive word-formation types, including names with the suffixes -ец // -эц // -ац; -ак // -як and -iк // -ык. The study is conducted using descriptive and statistical methods. The derivatives selected for the analysis were classified according to two groups of meaning (names of people according to external and internal features) and then described from the point of view of word-formation structure. The study that in the analyzed lexical units, the (qualitative) feature underlying the derivation process acquires intensity, which leads to the blurring of any other (potential) personal features expressed in the referent. Some derivatives have a stylistic (expressive) character. The collected material proves that the suffix has a semantic and/or stylistic function and that the derivation itself is mutational.

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