feminine professional nouns, morphology, suffixation, morphological productivity, language ideologies, diachrony
Περίληψη
This paper aims to examine the suffixation of feminine professional nouns in Ancient Greek and the productivity degree of their suffixes. To achieve this aim, it exploits data drawn from grammars (Οικονόμου 1971, van Emde Boas et al. 2019), reverse lexicons (Kretschmer & Locker [1944] 1977, Buck & Petersen [1945] 1984) and the LSJ lexicon. The research results show that the majority of these nouns were formed with feminine suffixes, whilst only a small number was using the masculine form. This tendency is discussed diachronically (from Ancient to Modern Greek) considering the effects of morphological changes and language ideologies.
