Usage and empirical productivity of international adjectival suffixes in Slovak based on general and specialised corpora Cover Image

Usage and empirical productivity of international adjectival suffixes in Slovak based on general and specialised corpora
Usage and empirical productivity of international adjectival suffixes in Slovak based on general and specialised corpora

Author(s): Jana Levická
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: productivity; realized productivity; potential productivity; general corpus; specialised corpus; adjective;suffix;

Summary/Abstract: The paper attempts to identify the usage and productivity of five different international suffixes in Slovak by means of corpus evidence. The analysis focuses on real and potential productivity in a two-stage comparison: 1) tokens/lemmas occurring in a general balanced corpus vs general corpus of specialised and academic texts, 2) general corpus of specialised and academic texts vs specialised (sub)corpora of medical, legal, economic and religious texts. The aim of the analysis is to explore whether productivity varies across registers by means of statistical measures.

  • Issue Year: 72/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 394-404
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English