Osnovna morfološka i semantička obilježja jednosložnih imenica u hrvatskome jeziku
The Basic Morphological and Semantic Features of One-Syllable Nouns in the Croatian language

Summary/Abstract: The one-syllable words in the Croatian language is small but relatively stable, prosodic consistent, morphologically predictable and closed and semantically very diverse part of Croatian language system. The compiled corpus of one-syllable words consists of about 80% of one-syllable nouns, which is in the corpus about 1500. A large majority of the collected nouns are loan-words from Turkish, German, English and Italian. The onesyllable nouns mainly belong to the Croatian standard language, but some of them are the dialectisms or colloquialisms. Altough this words are small and imperceptible part of the Croatian lexicon and they are not frequently like polysyllables nouns, we should consider their basic features before all their morphological paradigm and semantic characteristics. Therefore the aim of this paper is primarily to point out the basic features of one-syllable words in the Croatian but not presented a detailed and full grammatical and semantic description.

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