A comparative analysis of contemporary word-formation principles in Slovenian and Croatian

V članku so obravnavana priponska obrazila za tvorbo izpeljank z besedotvornim pomenom \u27vršilca dejanja\u27 in sicer primerjalno med hrvaškim in slovenskim jezikom; predstavljena so z besedotvornega in pomenskega stališča ter s stališča tvornosti in rabe.The study explores recent word-formation tendencies in the semantic group of agent in the Croatian and Slovenian languages. A direct comparison is not possible because the linguistic theories of the two languages use different criteria; consequently the descriptive method is used instead. The article deals only with those derivational suffixes which are sufficiently frequent in both languages and morphologically overlapping. The results show a similar situation and developmental tendencies in the suffixes (suffix pairs) -(a)c and -ec, -nik, -ar, -ator; the suffix -telj is more productive in Croatian than in Slovenian, while the Croatian -l(a)c is less productive than the Slovenian -alec and -ilec; -ač is very productive in both languages, except that in Slovenian its use in deverbal nouns is less recommended as it carries a considerable emotional or social marking