Acquisition of English nominal suffix -er by advanced EFL learners: a view from usage-based perspective

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 no...

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Main Authors: Takač Višnja Pavičić, Buljan Gabrijela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2023-10-01
Series:ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2023-0005