Ke staroslověnským kompozitům bez řeckého protějšku
Old Church Slavonic compounds without Old Greek counterparts

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study was to try to selectively explore the issue of lexical composition in the Old Slavonic language without Greek parallels. The author´s approach was based on excerption of canonical works and also of later works, which, however, also contain texts written most likely already in the period of Cyril and Methodius. Since the beginning of the formation of the literary Slavonic language, the attention was paid to the most precise translation of the Greek text and consequently the dependence on the Greek model is substantial. In addition to the Greek influence on the emergence of Old Church Slavonic compounds, the limited number of Latin and Old-High-German paradigms also needs to be considered. Verbal productivity, specifically the productivity of the respective component in compounds (the second one with micro-syntactic objective construction), can often be observed in originally formed Old Slavonic compounds. Stylistic validity represents another important factor, not only in the case of legal terms.

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