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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2023-10-01
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Series: | ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics) |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2023-0005 |