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Name ER-NOUN CONSTRUCTION (ISLANDER)
Semantic function of cxn Indicating a PERSON that comes from (or lives in) the PLACE indicated in slot 1.
Slots 1 (base) 2 (suffix)
Semantic role of slots PLACE PERSON
Syntactic form verb -er /ǝ, ǝr/
Example

Examples of bases and the corresponding suffixations:
island
Iceland
London
New York
Greenland
Shetland

islander
Icelander
Londoner
New Yorker
Greenlander
Shetlander
AmsterdamAmsterdammerspelling
Cxn with same formal pattern ER-NOUN CONSTRUCTION (BANKER)
ER-NOUN CONSTRUCTION (DRIVER)
Cxn with similar semantic function IAN-NOUN CONSTRUCTION
General cxn-type word formation cxn: morphological
suffixation: nominalization
Literature Schmid 2011: 171–173; Stein 2007: 48