RZECZOWNIKOWE ZŁOŻENIA Z CZŁONEM MAGNETO(-) WE WSPÓŁCZESNEJ POLSZCZYŹNIE
NOMINAL COMPOUNDS WITH DECOMPOSED ROOT MAGNETO- IN CONTEMPORARY POLISH

Summary/Abstract: The article is situated within Polish idiographic, microlinguistic, structuralist, and synchronic linguistics. It forms part of a broader research programme on compounds containing specific formative elements. The study contributes to existing body of research that has examined formations with elements such as cyber-, e-, eco-, ero-, euro-, info-, kato-, korona-, mega-, narko-, pato-, top-, as well as -fon, -gate, -holik, and -mat, by offering a structuralist analysis of compounds based on the disintegrated base magneto- ('magnetic, related to a magnetic field') in contemporary Polish. Seventeen lexical units of this type, excerpted from dictionaries, were paraphrased and classified according to the number and status of their components, the affix type, their categorial and lexical meanings, and their stylistic distribution. The analysis shows that compounds with the disintegrated base magneto- are predominantly two-element formations, formally and semantically divisible, typically combining truncation and interfixation. They primarily denote abstract scientific disciplines and belong to thematic domains and lexical fields related to HUMAN BEING AS A PSYCHIC ENTITY, particularly in terms of human intellectual and scientific activity, and are characteristic of scientific texts.

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