Types of Compound Word-Formation in Medical Terminology (On the Material of the German Language)
Journal: Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Serija 2 Jazykoznanije
Year: 2019

The aim of the study is to optimize the classification of the types of the compound word-building with components of Greek and Latin origin; the research is based on the sample of 2882 substantive compound terms of the German clinical terminology. The researches apply the descriptive analytical and quantitative methods to the study. It is stated, that the words with complex morphemic structures can be formed by composite and non-composite types of word-building. The paper presents the complex cl