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<p>The paper presents a corpus linguistic perspective on two adjectival suffixes <italic>-al</italic> and <italic>-ell</italic> in the German language. Its attention is focused on the distributional frequency of the derived adjectives, the semantic motivation and contextual occurrence through the lens of retried adjective + noun collocations. On top of that, the paper attempts to determine the superiority of such derived adjectives in the specialised vocabulary.</p>
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The paper presents a corpus linguistic perspective on two adjectival suffixes -al and -ell in the German language. Its attention is focused on the distributional frequency of the derived adjectives, the semantic motivation and contextual occurrence through the lens of retried adjective + noun collocations. On top of that, the paper attempts to determine the superiority of such derived adjectives in the specialised vocabulary.

The Competition of German Adjectival Suffixes

Department of Linguistics and Translation, Faculty of Applied Languages

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The paper presents a corpus linguistic perspective on two adjectival suffixes -al and -ell in the German language. Its attention is focused on the...

The Competition of German Adjectival Suffixes

Published Online: Dec 25, 2023

Page range: 81 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0026

Keywords
suffix, derived adjective, productivity, general corpus, specialised context

© 2023 Filip Kalaš, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Competition of German Adjectival Suffixes

Published Online: Dec 25, 2023

Page range: 81 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2023-0026

Keywordssuffix, derived adjective, productivity, general corpus, specialised context

© 2023 Filip Kalaš, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
suffix, derived adjective, productivity, general corpus, specialised context