Zachary Dukic
Biographic Data
| ID | 3531849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Dukic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Dukic |
| SIGNATURE | DUKIC Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-8751-9029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Suffix -ster in Present-Day English: A Usage-Based and Network Model Account
In this article, the authors provide an analysis of the present-day distribution of the -ster suffix in English and account for that distribution through the diachronic forces that shaped it. Taking a constructional approach reveals that words with the -ster suffix in Middle English constituted a semantically coherent set in so far as the items in that set mostly referred to professions. In the latter part of the first half of the Modern English …
The History of -eer in English: Suffix Competition or Symbiosis
Ecological models of competition have provided great explanatory power regarding synonymy in derivational morphology. Competition models of this type have certainly shown their utility, as they have demonstrated, among other things, the relevance of frequency measures, productivity, compositionality and analyzability when comparing the development of morphological constructions. There has been less consideration of alternative models that could b…
The History of -eer in English: Suffix Competition or Symbiosis
Ecological models of competition have provided great explanatory power regarding synonymy in derivational morphology. Competition models of this type have certainly shown their utility, as they have demonstrated, among other things, the relevance of frequency measures, productivity, compositionality and analyzability when comparing the development of morphological constructions. There has been less consideration of alternative models that could b…
The History of -eer in English: Suffix Competition or Symbiosis
Ecological models of competition have provided great explanatory power regarding synonymy in derivational morphology. Competition models of this type have certainly shown their utility, as they have demonstrated, among other things, the relevance of frequency measures, productivity, compositionality and analyzability when comparing the development of morphological constructions. There has been less consideration of alternative models that could b…
The Suffix -ster in Present-Day English: A Usage-Based and Network Model Account
In this article, the authors provide an analysis of the present-day distribution of the -ster suffix in English and account for that distribution through the diachronic forces that shaped it. Taking a constructional approach reveals that words with the -ster suffix in Middle English constituted a semantically coherent set in so far as the items in that set mostly referred to professions. In the latter part of the first half of the Modern English …
Computer Science (2 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Suffix (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Biology (1 works) · Competition (biology (1 works) · Ecology (1 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 works)