In Christian nominal terms derived from verbs almost all underlying syntactic patterns appear. The article analyses the most productive word formational procedures and semantic groups with same-function suffixes which in texts manifest different frequencies of use. Due to non-differentiation of meaning, especially with suffixes with the meaning of giving verbal action and the result of the verbal action, we studied the meaning of complex words in contextual use. It turned out that terminological complex words are mostly (simple) derivatives, usually appearing with the word formational meaning of giving verbal action and the agent of the act, while for the word formational meaning of an object connected to the act only a few examples are found. Amongdeverbal nouns with the meaning of giving verbal action, more than half of the examples are gerunds with the suffix (-a/e/ova)nje, which are followed by zero suffixes -? and with suffixes -a and -ba when considering the productivity of complex words. With regard to the agent of the verbal act, with a root from imperfective or perfective verbs, there appear most frequently the suffixes -nik and -ník, -vec, -ar and -tel, -teo while the rest of have remained on the margins of terminological formation. Within this typological study, we point to the elements of the dialectal word formation groups, to the influence of the German linguistic foundation which has hindered the development of Slovene complex word formation, and the exchange of terminologically complex words over a 300-year period.
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