Blending First, BATtified, Atikulated and Obi-dient are examples of blends because they are a product of blending – the word formation process where parts of two or more words are combined to ...

The research investigates the word-formation process of blending in English and its main aim is to find out what factors determine why certain words are blended together in such a way. The paper ...

Masayoshi Shibatani, Taro Kageyama, Word Formation in a Modular Theory of Grammar: Postsyntactic Compounds in Japanese, Language, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Sep., 1988), pp. 451-484 ...

The acquisition of word formation devices in the target language is presented as a gradual acquisition process. Studies in Second Language Acquisition is a refereed journal of international scope ...

ONE major word-formation process in English is to use the noun itself as a verb to express the action conveyed or implied by the noun, doing this without changing the form of the noun in any way. This ...