Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Lexical Blending / / ed. by Vincent Renner, François Maniez, Pierre Arnaud.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 252
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Physical Description:1 online resource (267 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 perspectives
  • A 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