Original scientific paper

Nouns and Adjectives: What can adjectives reveal about nouns?

Matea Birtić orcid.org/0000-0001-5927-782X ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje u Zagrebu

Abstract

The paper applies the event-related adjectival tests, formed by Roy and Soare (2014), to the Croatian deverbal agentive nouns with the suffix -ač. Instrument, dispositional and episodic nominals were tested. Although instrument nominals are special in a way, some language evidence suggests that splitting agentive nouns in only two classes (episodic and dispositional), proposed by Alexiadou and Schäfer (2010), also makes sense.

Keywords

word formation; semantics; nominals with -ač; event-related adjectival tests

Hrčak ID:

167811

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/167811

Publication date:

21.10.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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