Original scientific paper
The unproductivity of the i-inflection in the Croatian literary language
Stjepan Babić
Abstract
In the article the author shows that after the 19th century the Croatian literary language has
not been accepting new nouns belonging to the i-inflection (of the type stvar, stvari) if they are
not derived by the suffixes -ost, -ad and -ež. In cases when there is a new noun of this category
it either changes its gender or gets the suffix -a. Thus for both the native nouns as well as those
originating in foreign languages the i-inflection has become unproductive in word formation.
Keywords
nouns; noun inflection; loan words; morphology; Croatian language
Hrčak ID:
13492
URI
Publication date:
25.9.2006.
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