Original scientific paper
Infixation, reduplication, and blending in Croatian
Ivan Marković
orcid.org/0000-0003-0005-5768
; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the paper three word-formation processes are described which are not found in the indigenous Croatian lexicon. First is infixation, which is a kind of concatenative affixation, and the other two are non-concatenative – reduplication and blending. The paper has three aims: i) to point out some inconsistencies in existing descriptions of Croatian morphology, ii) to analyse several Croatian neologisms that can be viewed as examples of the three processes in question, iii) to predict whether it is possible, and if so, to what extent, for non-indigenous word-formation types to be imported from foreign languages, nowadays mainly (only) English.
Keywords
morphology (language); word formation; neologism; infixation; reduplication; blend; contact linguistics
Hrčak ID:
50756
URI
Publication date:
14.4.2010.
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