THE FREQUENCY AND USAGE OF OVER-DERIVATIVES IN TEXTS ON COVID-19

Autor/innen

  • Božana M. Tomić Independent researcher, PhD in Linguistics, University of Belgrade
  • Jelena V. Šajinović Novaković University of Banja Luka Faculty of Philology Department of English Language and Literature

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21618/fil2328246t

Schlagworte:

written text on COVID-19, over-words, frequency, colligational patterns.

Abstract

Being stylistically neutral, prefix over- is used in different functional styles. Here the focus is on its usage in words appearing in written newspaper texts on COVID-19. The main goal of the paper is to examine the overall frequency of overderivatives in this type of text. The idea is to illustrate the most frequent word class of derivatives, show their meanings and to analyse morphological and colligational patterns in which and with which they occur. Derivational prefixes can change either the meaning of the word they are attached to or the word class. Taking into account the frequency and features derived words with this prefix show, we consider that this paper will give a significant contribution to further research on over-words in different types of texts.

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Veröffentlicht

2023-12-31

Zitationsvorschlag

Tomić, B. M. ., & Šajinović Novaković, J. V. . (2023). THE FREQUENCY AND USAGE OF OVER-DERIVATIVES IN TEXTS ON COVID-19 . Der Philologe – Zeitschrift für Sprache, Literatur Und Kultur, 14(28), 246–258. https://doi.org/10.21618/fil2328246t

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Bd. 14 Nr. 28 (2023): Der Philologe – Zeitschrift für Sprache, Literatur und Kultur

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