Nominal Anglicisms in -er in Serbian

This paper gives an account of morphological-derivational and semantic characteristics of the nominal Anglicisms ending in -er, how they entered the Serbian language, the degree of their integration and their place in the lexicon. Typically, those are nouns pertaining to the nomina agentis, nomina professionis and nomina instrumenti categories, which belong to the general wordstock or the terminological systems. They are mainly obvious and justified Anglicisms which are highly integrated into the language. The analysis shows that these units enter Serbian isolatedly (broker, revolver, brauzer) or together with other semantically or derivationally related Anglicisms (pejdžer - pejdžing, kidnapovati - kidnaper, džogirati - džoger - džoging). The Anglicisms ending in -er which entered Serbian isolatedly are usually not subject to further derivation as a form of secondary adaptation. On the other hand, if the Anglicisms enter as parts of a series, every member has the capacity for derivation varieties, e.g. skenirati [skener] > skeniranje, tenis [teniser] > teniski, teniser > teniserski, teniserka. The extent to which these Anglicisms are integrated into the system of the recipient language is confirmed by their capacity for further semantic variations (using different mechanisms), and reflects on their tendency to form paradigmatic relations with native and nativized units. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 178004: Istraživanje je rađeno u okviru projekta Standardni srpski jezik: sintaksička, semantička i pragmatička istraživanja]

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