Abstract:The polysemy of suffixes -ač and -aš in CroatianUnlike the study of polysemy on the lexical level, the polysemy of word formation units still remains understudied in Croatian linguistics. The present paper concentrates on the polysemous suffixes -ač and -aš, since it is the derivations by these suffixes that prove most numerous in the corpus of new Croatian words. Apart from listing the most frequent semantic categories that the words derived by the suffixes -ač and -aš belong to, the paper analyzes the bases … Show more
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