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This thesis provides a linguistic analysis and classification of aviation abbreviations using a limited corpus of English aviation terms. The research covers 216 abbreviations that come from a few sources: Acronym Glossary by Federal Aviation Administration, List of Frequently Used EASA Abbreviations by European Union Aviation Safety Agency and All Aviation Abbreviation Dictionary issued by Flying in Europe Organization. The analysis of the collected abbreviations was carried out using a framework proposed by Lopez Rua (2006) and developed in Fabijanić, Malenica’s work (2013a, b). Abbreviations were divided into three broad categories – alphabetisms, acronyms and hybrid abbreviations, according to the set of specific parameters. The parameters include orthographic elements used in the formation of abbreviations such as initials, prefixes, numerals and syllables, and various types of orthographic changes that the elements of abbreviation undergo, such as metathesis, ellipsis, and addition. The results of the research reveal that the most common pattern of forming abbreviations in the aviation field is represented by alphabetisms in narrower sense - abbreviations that are pronounced letter-by-letter and contain initial letters of each word in a phrase, without omitting any constituent or undergoing an orthographic change. Ovaj diplomski rad sadrži lingvističku analizu i podjelu kratica u zrakoplovstvu na temelju ograničenog broja engleskih avijacijskih termina. Istraživanje pokriva 216 kratica sakupljenih iz nekoliko izvora: Acronym Glossary Američke savezne zrakoplovne uprave, List of Frequently Used EASA Abbreviations Europske agencije za sigurnost zračnog prometa i All Aviation Abbreviation Dictionary koji je izdala organizacija Putovanje zrakom u Europi. Analiza je provedena uz pomoć istraživačkog okvira koji je predložila Lopez Rua (2006), a u svom radu upotrijebili Fabijanić i Malenica (2013a, b). Kratice su podijeljene u tri šire kategorije – alfabetizmi, akronimi i hibridni oblici prema skupu posebnih parametara. Ti parametri uključuju ortografske elemente koji se koriste kod tvorbe kratica kao što su npr. inicijali, prefiksi, brojevi i slogovi, i razne vrste ortografskih promjena kod kratica: metateza, elipsa, adicija. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da najzastupljeniji oblik tvorbe kratica u polju zrakoplovstva čine alfabetizmi u užem smislu – kratice koje se izgovaraju slovo po slovo i sadrže početno slovo svake riječi u frazi bez izostavljanja ijednog člana fraze i bez ortografskih promjena.

The research presents results of classifications and analyses of alphabethisms, acronyms and their hybrid forms on a limited corpus of the English medical terms. Alphabethisms and acronyms were classified according to two criteria: narrower and broader sense, and their differences in orthographic formation were described by a set of specific descriptors. This kind of description, classification and analysis was used in examining the corpus of both English and Croatian medical terms. In the analysis of orthographic adaptation of English alphabethisms to Croatian, three degrees of their adaptation were suggested: zero orthographic change, partial/compromise adaptation and complete adaptation. Substitution and adaptation on the orthographic level is tentatively named transgraphemization.

Recent studies in English non-morphological/non-morphemic word-formation processes (e.g. López Rúa 2006 ; Fandrych 2004, 2008, 2008a ; Cannon 1989 ; Plag 2003 ; Muhvić-Dimanovski 2001 ; Brdar-Szabó, Brdar 2008 ; Marković 2009) have shown a great deal of heterogenous aspects in their formation, inconsistancies in classification, definitions and analyses. Non-morphological word-formation processes in English can be seen in the formation of abbreviations, clippings, initialisms, acronyms, blends. In our research the analysis of non-morphological word-formation types in English medical terminology will be carried out together with the description and explanation of their adaptation to Croatian language, which will be accompanied with all types and patterns of their adaptation. The analysis will be conducted on the basis of some recent non-morphological word-formation classifications and on the basis of certain characteristics observed in abbreviations, clippings, initialisms and other types of these words, i. e. transferonyms (borrowings) transferred from the English medical terminology into the Croatian medical terminology. Similarly, on a representative material of these formations, the research will present the degrees of orthographic adaptation of models in the Croatian medical terminology.