Peculiarities of Making Nouns Using Suffixes in Chinese (On the Example of Suffixes 家 “Jia” and 者 “Zhe”)

Abstract

There are two types of affixes in modern Chinese - prefixation and suffixation. In Chinese, suffix words are formed by the addition of an independent meaning morpheme and a suffix. There are not many suffix morphemes that make a noun in Chinese. However, some of them are distinguished by their productivity, one of which is the suffixes 家 “jia” and 者“zhe”. This article discusses the features of the formation of words belonging to the noun phrase in modern Chinese through the suffixes 家 “jia” and 者“zhe”. To achieve this goal, the author turned to various sources, analyzed only the specific features of these suffixes, considered the grammatical features of lexical units formed by the suffixes 家 “jia” and 者“zhe”, and as a result proved the relevant conclusions with examples.