The Morphology Of English Language

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Language is progressive; it constantly goes through changes in terms of shapes, spellings and sounds. Words are formed and restructured constantly as a way to accommodate to the needs of its users. These words will then spread throughout the societies that apply the languages in their lives. One of the ways to create new words is by using blends. Blending is not a stranger in the Morphology of English language. Blending is the morphological process of creating new words by merging parts of two or more words together in which the meanings of these new words are often the mixture of the original words. These parts are not always derived from morphemes. Previously, famous classic writers such as William Shakespeare were also responsible in creating …show more content…

The linguists have different definitions for blends. According to Katamba (2002), blends are compounds made in an unconventional way by piecing together parts of word-forms belonging to two different lexemes. Bauer (1983) described blend as a new lexeme designed from parts of two or more words in a way where there is no clear analysis into morphs. Conferring to Fromkin and Rodman (1998), “two words may be combined to produce blends.” Blends are comparable to compounds but parts of the words combined are erased and so they are less than …show more content…

Clipping: The shortening of two words before compounding them a. Clipping is divided into two parts; apocope and procope. i. Procope clipping indicates that the first element of the word is erased. ii. Apocope clipping indicates that the final element of the word is erased. b. Margarine (Oleomargarine) i. This is procope clipping as the first part of the word is erased. c. Specs (Spectacles) i. This is apocope clipping as the ending part of the word is erased. 3. Phonemic Overlap and Clipping: The shortening of two words to shared syllable before compounding. a. Geomatics (Geography + Mathematics) i. A branch of science that analyzes the data concerning the earth's surface. According to Laurie Bauer (1983), there are four structural formation methods of blending. The first method is by combining the beginning of the first word and the last element of the second source. The second method is to merging each beginning of the source words. The third method is by coining the two blended words around common sequence of sound. The last method is combining multiple sounds from two components combined

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