How departicipial are "l-participle" nominalisations in Western South Slavic

We focus on nominalisations seemingly derived from l-participles, illustrated by
lec-nominalisations in Slovenian, in order to establish the nature and position of
the l-morpheme as well as the structure of these nominalisations in general. Our
research is situated in the current debates on whether the item l in l-participles
and l-nominalisations is the same morpheme or two different morphemes, and if
the former, whether l-nominalisations are derived from l-participles. We argue
that the l-morpheme is a root in both, but also show that it is not the case that
 lec-nominalisations contain l-participles. The lec-nominalisations are argued to
 contain a smaller structure than the corresponding l-participle, which is also reflected
in the set of theme vowels possible in these nominalisations.