Blending as a Type of Word-Formation in English

Download or read book Blending as a Type of Word-Formation in English written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, University of Würzburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: English Morphology and Word - Formation, language: English, abstract: As a part of this term paper I will show how the blends are classified into modified and meaningful blends and how they are categorized, including the categorization of their source words. I am going to answer the question how blends are structured and what kind of rules there are for their formation. The term paper will answer all these questions by analyzing blends and their source words and this will show that blending is a word – formation process.