Some “gender-sensitive” derivatives ending in -kinja and the word-formation system of the Serbian language

Abstract

This paper studies the derivatives akademkinja, borkinja, poslovotkinja, psihološkinja, sutkinja, vatrogaskinja, vodičkinja, vojnikinja and related formations (hirurškinja, knjigovotkinja, virusološkinja, etc.). The paper aims to determine how well they fit into the derivational system of the Serbian language, i.e. whether they have derivational precedents in the Serbian language. The conclusion is that the mentioned derivatives are derivationally irregular.

Keywords

• serbian language
• word formation
• suffixation
• motion
• gender-sensitive language
• linguistic engineering