Prescriptivist Descriptions of Overabundance in the Genitive Plural of Feminine Nouns with Consonant Cluster Stems

Bošnjak Botica, Tomislava; Polančec, Jurica

doi:10.31724/rihjj.50.2.3

Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, Vol. 50 No. 2, 2024.

Review article

https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.50.2.3

Prescriptivist Descriptions of Overabundance in the Genitive Plural of Feminine Nouns with Consonant Cluster Stems

Tomislava Bošnjak Botica ; Institut za hrvatski jezik, Zagreb
Jurica Polančec orcid.org/0000-0002-8454-8844 ; Staroslavenski institut, Zagreb

Full text: croatian pdf 577 Kb

versions

page 281-302

downloads: 397

cite

APA 6th Edition

Bošnjak Botica, T. & Polančec, J. (2024). Prescriptivist Descriptions of Overabundance in the Genitive Plural of Feminine Nouns with Consonant Cluster Stems. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, 50 (2). https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.50.2.3

MLA 8th Edition

Bošnjak Botica, Tomislava and Jurica Polančec. "Prescriptivist Descriptions of Overabundance in the Genitive Plural of Feminine Nouns with Consonant Cluster Stems." Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, vol. 50, no. 2, 2024 https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.50.2.3. Accessed 20 May 2026.

Chicago 17th Edition

Harvard

Bošnjak Botica, T., and Polančec, J. (2024). 'Prescriptivist Descriptions of Overabundance in the Genitive Plural of Feminine Nouns with Consonant Cluster Stems', Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, 50(2). https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.50.2.3

Vancouver

Bošnjak Botica T, Polančec J. Prescriptivist Descriptions of Overabundance in the Genitive Plural of Feminine Nouns with Consonant Cluster Stems. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik [Internet]. 2024 [cited 2026 May 20];50(2). https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.50.2.3

IEEE

T. Bošnjak Botica and J. Polančec, "Prescriptivist Descriptions of Overabundance in the Genitive Plural of Feminine Nouns with Consonant Cluster Stems", Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, vol.50, no. 2, 2024. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.50.2.3

Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of grammatical descriptions of the genitive plural forms of the Croatian e-declension feminine nouns with a stem ending in a consonant cluster (e.g., žalba ‘complaint’, pogreška ‘error’). Sources for the analysis are found in Croatian grammar textbooks and academic studies. These nouns exhibit two or three competing forms in the genitive plural (e.g., žalba ‘complaint’: žalbā/žalbī; pogreška ‘mistake’: pogrešākā/pogreškā/pogreškī). The paper evaluates the consistency and applicability of the rules governing the distribution of endings as presented in these resources. Furthermore, it traces the treatment of morphological doublets (overabundance) in this category across mid-nineteenth-century to contemporary Croatian grammatical works.