FORMATIONAL AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF THE NOUNS TAKEN FROM A SELECTION OF STORIES BY IVO ANDRIĆ

Abstract

The subject of the paper is the formational and semantic analysis of the nouns excerpted from two Andrić’s stories – The Bridge on the Žepa and Thirst. Two thematically different stories are taken as to make the vocabulary more diverse. The aim of the paper is to establish which nouns Andrić uses in a formational context and if the nouns are mostly simple, derived or complex words, as well as to establish whether there is the unusual nominal lexis present both, in a formational and semantic context. The results of the analysis suggest that simple words are predominant in a given corpus, and that the primary meaning of the nouns is, most frequently, thereby realized. What is surprising is that out of 506 nouns in the corpus only two complex nouns occur.