NOUN SUFFIXES IN ENGLISH AND THEIR SERBIAN EQUIVALENTS IN IT REGISTER

Abstract

The subject of this study is the research of noun suffixes in English and their equivalents in Serbian in IT register. IT register is a relatively new field and has expanded in recent years. It is very interesting field, not only for the experts in that area, but also for linguistic research. After examining monolingual, bilingual and encyclopedic dictionaries of computer technology, as well as the relevant linguistic literature, we have presented the conclusions about the origin and meaning of noun suffixes in English and Serbian in this field. The corpus includes 12 English noun suffixes and 19 Serbian, as well as 635 nouns which contain these suffixes. In this research we contrasted English and Serbian IT terms. We also used descriptive method and statistical analysis; the data were processed by a computer.