The productivity of the suffix -it" in present-day journalism Cover Image

PRODUCTIVITATEA SUFIXULUI -ITĂ ÎN ARTICOLE DIN PUBLICISTICA ACTUALĂ
The productivity of the suffix -it" in present-day journalism

Author(s): Elena Laura Trifan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: vocabulary; figurative; the suffix -ită

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to illustrate one of the tendencies of the vocabulary of the post December press, the creation of new medical terms, with figurative meaning, by derivation with the suffix -ită to denote the decaying state of the presen Romanian society, not found in other dictionaries, such as DEX2, DN4, DCR2.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 403-406
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian