OSOBOWE NOMINA ATTRIBUTIVA Z FORMANTAMI SUFIKSALNYMI W JĘZYKU POLSKIM I BIAŁORUSKIM
Personal Nomina Attributiva with Suffixes in Polish and Belarusian

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines personal nouns belonging to the category of nomina attributiva in Polish and Belarusian. The research material includes over 450 derivatives (around 200 in Polish and around 250 in Belarusian), formed by suffixes from the basis of adjectives and adjectival participles, less often from nouns and verbs. A comparative method was used in the analysis. When describing the lexical corpus, the affiliation of lexical units to the category of personal feature carriers, their formal structure (connectivity of the word-formation base with the suffixal formant, morphological phenomena accompanying derivation), as well as the number of word-formation types were taken into account. The study reveals that in both Polish and Belarusian within the analyzed category the highest productivity is shown by the suffixes -ec // -ец (26% in Polish and 27% in Belarusian), -ak // -ак (14% and 19% respectively) and -ik // -iк (12% and 10%). In attributive personal names, the word-formation formant performs a semantic function, and the derivation itself has a mutational character. As the nomination indicates the sender’s attitude (usually negative), mutations are often accompanied by expressive phenomena.

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