Blends, Their Relation to English Word Formation (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Louise Pound

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330395166 ISBN 13 : 9781330395165

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover how blend-words shape English today and what they reveal about language in use. These pages show how two or more words fuse into new terms, from everyday slang to scholarly terms, and why that matters to the way we communicate.

This work surveys the nature and interest of blends, their relation to standard speech, and the patterns by which new words appear in English. It frames how language evolves, offering methods to study contemporary word formation with clear, accessible explanations.

• Learn what blend-words are and how they form from pairs or clusters of words.


• See historical and modern examples across slang, dialect, and standard language.


• Understand how blends move toward acceptance in dictionaries and everyday usage.


• Gain a structured view of classification, origin, and the impact of word creation.

Ideal for readers of linguistics, lexicography, and language history.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330395166
• ISBN 13: 9781330395165
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 66
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