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Cross-disciplinary perspectives on lexical blending /

The volume brings together a well-selected collection of twelve articles providing a comprehensive and very informative summary of contemporary work on lexical blending. It combines theoretically informed descriptions of a variety of languages and a number of contributions with a theoretically origi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Renner, Vincent, Maniez, François, Arnaud, Pierre J. L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 252.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Introduction: A bird's-eye view of lexical blending; Blends: Core and periphery; Beyond all reasonable transgression: Lexical blending in alternative music; Blend formation in Modern Greek; Lexical blending in Polish: A result of the internationalisation of Slavic languages; Ukrainian Blends: Elicitation paradigm and structural analysis; Are reduced compounds compounds? Morphological and prosodic properties of reduced compounds in Russian and Mandarin Chinese; Blending between grammar and universal cognitive principles: Evidence from German, Farsi, and Chinese.
  • Quantitative corpus data on blend formation: Psycho- and cognitive-linguistic perspectivesA Combinatory Logic and formal-semantic account of lexical blending; Stress in English blends: A constraint-based analysis; Output-to-output faithfulness in the phonological structure of English blends; Portmanteaus as generalized templates; Contributors; Index.