Compounding as one of the productive ways of word formation of veterinary terms (based on the modern German language)

Abstract

The research aims to determine the formal-structural and semantic-etymological features of compound terms in the field of veterinary epizootiology and veterinary parasitology in the German language. The scientific novelty of the research lies in identifying the most productive models of veterinary compounds in the German language. The structural analysis of complex terms revealed that they can be represented by compounds with a complex modifier, a complex head, or both a complex modifier and a complex head. The most productive word-formation models of veterinary compounds have been identified. An attempt has been made to classify compounds into groups with common specific features and to identify the most frequent components of compounds denoting generic features. From the perspective of etymology, it has been found that veterinary complex terms are predominantly hybrid formations composed of Greek-Latin elements and endogenous language material. As a result, it has been found that determinative compounds dominate, with the majority being two-word proper complex terminological units, in the veterinary terminology system in the German language.