Introduction

Lexis 14 is devoted to the phenomenon of blending in English. Different motivations justify this choice: mainly, and despite the prolific literature on the topic, there are issues that still remain unsolved, but also the productivity of the mechanism as well as the growing number of lexical items c...

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Gepubliceerd in:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lexis,
Hoofdauteurs: Balteiro, Isabel, Bauer, Laurie
Formaat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Taal:Anglais
Gepubliceerd in: Lexis 2019
Online toegang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Samenvatting:Lexis 14 is devoted to the phenomenon of blending in English. Different motivations justify this choice: mainly, and despite the prolific literature on the topic, there are issues that still remain unsolved, but also the productivity of the mechanism as well as the growing number of lexical items created by this process that appear in daily in the world languages. This emergence and increasing appearance of blends is the reason for the synchronic approach adopted in the present volume as wel...