2023
DOI: 10.2478/exell-2023-0005
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Acquisition of English nominal suffix -er by advanced EFL learners: a view from usage-based perspective

Višnja Pavičić Takač,
Gabrijela Buljan

Abstract: The present study investigated advanced Croatian EFL learners’ knowledge of five meanings of the English nominal (deverbal) suffix -er. It probed their ability to comprehend and produce corpus-rare and presumably unentrenched -er nouns in their prototypical agent and instrument meanings and their non-prototypical patient, locative, and causative meanings. It was hypothesized that participants would deal effortlessly with agent and instrument meanings of the low-frequency nouns since the corpus-attested high ty… Show more

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