Je kávomat výsledek blendingu, nebo sufixoidace?

• Authors: Jakub Sláma

Title variants

EN

Czech words ending in -(o)mat ‘vending machine’: blending or a libfix?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Words such as kávomat ‘coffee vending machine’ have been approached as blends (káva ‘coffee’ + automat ‘vending machine’) but also as instances of the libfix (combining form, suffixoid) -(o)mat. To decide which interpretation is more adequate, I employ Gries’s (2004) similarity index for graphemes after Norde & Sippach (2019), showing that the values of the similarity index are significantly lower for words ending in -(o)mat than for a sample of 270 Czech blends. This suggests that it is more adequate to treat -(o)mat as a libfix. The average value of the similarity index for Czech blends (0.49) is notably similar to the value for English authentic blends (0.48) reported by Gries (2004).

Keywords

CS

blending; morfologie; usage-based; slovotvorba; sufixoid

EN

blending; libfix; morphology; suffixoid; usage-based; word-formation

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 108
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 124-131
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jakub Sláma

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic