Substantival compounds with decompose root elektro- in contemporary Polish

Abstract

The article is situated within the idiographic, microlinguistic, structuralist and synchronic linguistics. It is part of the ongoing research on Polish compounds with different decomposed roots. It complements the literature on the subject, which has already analyzed formations with segments cyber-, e-, eko-, ero-, euro-, info-, kato-, korona-, mega-, narko-, pato-, top-, as well as -fon, -gate, -holik and -mat, with a structuralist description of substantival compounds with the decomposed root electro- ‘electric, connected with electricity’ existing in contemporary Polish. Excerpted from dictionaries of the Polish language and dictionaries of foreign words, 67 lexical units of this type were paraphrased in it, and then divided according to the number and status of their members, the type of affix used, their categorical and lexical meaning, and the scope of use. According to the results of the study two-part formations, constructions with formal-semantic divisibility, disintegral-interfix structures, names of abstract sciences, components of the thematic sphere and the lexical field and subfield HUMAN AS A PSYCHIC ENTITY –  human intellectual activity – scientific activity and scientific terms predominate in the material.