Abstract:
The article studies the processes of univerbation in Eastern Slavic and Modern Greek, special attention is paid to their role in terminological systems, the need to conduct this analysis in the context of new paradigms of word-formation is emphasized. It is also essential to distinguish it from compressives in language comparative research. The analysis has established similarities and differences of substantivation, univerba- tion being suffixational phenomenon through the prism of compounding and affixa- tional word-formation. It has put forward a study of univerbation from the perspective of correlation between periphrastic word-formation of juxtaposits and families of split nominations.
