This is a word-formation analysis of a section of zoological lexicon in which compounds with infixes and suffixes feature as the second most frequent type, the first being derivatives. The findings are compared to the results of similar analyses carried out on two other types of texts: media and new technologies. There, too, we notice an increase in the number of compounds with infixes and, consequently, two fundamental linguistic trends: conservativism and inventivness. The author wonders whether the entire Slovene vocabulary has already undergone a qualitative shift from compounds with infixes and suffixes to those with infixes only and if so, how indicative is this of new systemic and structural trends in contemporary Slovene.
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