Adjectives Formed from Surnames Ending in -ski in the Standard Serbo-Croat Language Cover Image

Pridjevi tvoreni od prezimena na -ski u standardnom srpskohrvatskom jeziku
Adjectives Formed from Surnames Ending in -ski in the Standard Serbo-Croat Language

Author(s): Miloš Okuka
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: Serbo-Croatian standard language; adjective; surname; language codification; linguistics;

Summary/Abstract: In the Serbo-Croat language possessive adjectives derived from surnames with a final -ski appear with the ending -skov (e. g. Crnjanskov) and -skijev (e. g. Čomskijev). Such adjectives have been condemned as non-standard. The author claims that they fallow the principles of Serbo-Croat word formation and that their widespread use is a result of creative response to new communicative demands, which also need to be taken into account in language codification.

  • Issue Year: 10/1981
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-12
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Croatian, Serbian