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Nomina personae мутационного характера в современном русском языке
Mutating Personal Names in Modern Russian

Author(s): Jolanta Miturska-Bojanowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: suffixal nouns; nomina personae; modern Russian language

Summary/Abstract: A quite large group among suffixal nouns are personal names (nomina personae); they aremost often derived using suffixes -ик/-ник, -ист, -щик/-чик, -ец/-овец. A lot of formants arepolyfunctional. There is a phenomenon of word-formation synonymy and homonymy in the groupof nominal formations we are interested in.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: X
  • Page Range: 13-20
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian