A FEW COMMENTS ON MORPHOLOGICAL ANALOGY IN SLAVONIC LINGUISTICS (IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LATEST POLISH AND BULGARIAN NON-AFFIXAL COMPOUNDS)

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.