French and English lexical blends in contrast

Abstract

Two sets of 97 French and 374 English lexical units identified as lexical blends are examined from a contrastive perspective. It appears that English displays a wider variety of patterns than French does – a larger number of marginal types of lexical input combination, of lexical shortening and of phonological splitting. Striking dissimilarities between the two languages also include an inclination for the pattern of double inner shortening in English and the pattern of left-hand-side inner shortening in French, as well as a preference for semantic and phonological right-headedness in English and the absence of a preferred lateral head position in French.

Lexical Shortening and Blending: An Innovative Word Formation Process in Arabic

“…Another line of research focused on lexical blending in English such as new lexical blends in English (Hosseinzadeh, 2014;Šomanová & Vogel, 2017); the innovation and adoption of English lexical blends (Connolly, 2013); merging as a way of forming lexical units in the modern English language (Orazbekova & Muldagalyieva (2017); a corpus-based analysis of new English blends such as glamma (glamour+grandma), eatertainment, irritainment, shoppertainment, from the splinter -tainment in entertainment (Elisa, 2019); English lexical blends on social media as crasins > cranberries+raisins, mocial > mobile+social, neature (neat+nature), Piloga > pilates+yoga, perthonality > personality+Perth (Cook, 2012); cognitive constraints in English lexical blending with a data collection methodology and an explanatory model (Kjellander, 2018); lexical blends and a reanalysis of morphemization (Frath & Hamm (2005); the automatic identification of source words in English lexical blends (Cook & Stevenson, 2010); a contrastive study of English and Thai compounding and lexical blending (Charernwiwatthanasri (2022); a contrastive analysis of French and English lexical blends (Renner, 2019; the phonological and orthographic constraints that shape blended words, such as preference for complex onsets, maintenance of stress placement, phonological and orthographic overlap and comparison with lexical neighbors to evaluate their phonotactic acceptability, orthographic transparency and interaction of many layers of representation (DiGirolamo, 2012) and others.…”

A morphosemantic analysis of new blends in Serbian

“…Једну од врло продуктивних, али и непредвидивих могућности у творби речи, првенствено у енглеском, али и у другим језицима, последњих деценија представља и творбени процес у релевантној литератури познат као лексичко сливање (енгл. lexical blending) (Aronoff & Fudeman, 2011;Booij, 2007;Callies, 2016;Delahunty & Garvey, 2010;Haspelmath & Sims, 2010;Katamba, 2005;Lalić-Krstin & Silaški, 2018;Lieber & Štekauer, 2014;Lieber, 2009;Mattiello, 2013;Mattiello 2017;Miller, 2014;Pound, 1914;Renner, 2019;Бугарски, 2001, 1). У српском језику овај процес постао је популаран и продуктиван током 90-их година прошлога века, највероватније као само једна од неизбежних последица "свеприсутног" енглеског језика (Бугарски, 2001, стр.…”

“…Подвучене су речи или њихови делови који се (фонолошки и/или графолошки) преклапају, што је у релевантној страној и домаћој литератури уобичајени начин представљања преклапања у сливеницама (в. нпр. Renner, 2019;Halupka-Rešetar & Lalić-Krstin, 2009). У вези с преклапањем, Renner (2019, стр.…”

“…ендоцентричност (субординативност), егзоцентричност и координативност) примењујући, као и већина аутора (в. нпр. Halupka-Rešetar & Lalić-Krstin, 2009;Renner, 2019), дијагностички тест хипонимије. С обзиром на одређена ограничења овог теста (Renner, 2019, стр.…”

Blends: an intermediate category at the crossroads of morphology and phonology

“…He just choose these forms since the blends breen and glue, from green + blue, existed already. Arndt-Lappe and Plag also obtained grue as a resulting blend next to glue.24 The data presented inRenner (2019) suggest that there is a sizeable minority of English blends that have the same length as sw1. However, Renner does not make a difference between AC and Ad blends in this study.…”