Morphological innovations in the Croato-Serbian

Abstract

The theme appears limited on morphological innovations in the Croato-Serbian language and connected to the occurences of in declinability and the relations in the long and short plural. The author states the approach to the morphology of the word to be separated from the lexicological views of the word, which requires his place in the morphological structure regardless of the position in the language. The main problem of the declination is either the final vowel is to be conceived as a morpheme (dinamo Gen. Sg, dinama) or as a part of the base (kakao, Gen. kakaoa, when the morpheme is 0). The indeclinability of a name as Ines0 is a frequent occurence and a reality of the standard language. The author does not meet satisfaction with the opinions in normative hand-books where the problem of the long and short plural is connected to the requirements of the poetic language.
It means that the long plural supplies the short one, which is limiting either by significance (akt / akti-aktovi) or in his expressive structures. The new words do mainly include in the existent types with a short plural. The forms with a short plural could grammaticaly be foreseen, they are never agrammatical, while the irreal, individual and scantily confirmed forms of long plural are redundant.