VOL. 52, BOOK 1, PART A, 2014, pp. 402 – 416 Full text (Bg)

Author: Natalia Długosz

Affiliation: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to introduce a manner of understanding the role of analogy in word formation – particularly with reference to a definite group of vocabulary which is being assigned by me as I have been guided by a formal criterion of the manner of constructing these words. Rather than presenting results of the detailed analyses, I actually refer to my own, previously conducted research, based on material from Polish and Bulgarian languages. I also include a proposal for the interpretation of most recent non-affixal compounds with initial foreign component in Polish and Bulgarian as one of the signs of morphological analogy.

Key words: word formation analogy, new compound structures, Polish and Bulgarian languages