Blending in morphology

BLENDING
Blending is the process of forming a word by
combining parts of words. In blending you
sound out a sound or phoneme and combine
it with the next sound or phonemes of a word
form the word itself.

Here are some e.g. of blending
• Glimmer = gleam + shimmer
• Moped= motor + pedal
• Sitcom= situation + comedy
• Chexting= cheating + texting
• Textpectation = texting + expectation
• Flirtationship = Flirting + relationship
• newscast = news + broadcast

Formation
Most blends are formed by one of the following
methods:
1. The beginning of one word is added to the end
of the other (see portmanteau). For
example, brunch is a blend of breakfast and lunch.
■ simultaneous + broadcast→simulcast (3,
exception)
■ smoke + fog →smog
■ spoon + fork →spork
2. The beginning of two words are combined. For
example,cyborg is a blend
of cybernetic and organism.

3. Two words are blended around a common
sequence of sounds. For examples, the
word californication, from a song by the Red
Hot Chili Peppers, is a blend of California and
fornication, and the word motel is a blend
of motor and hotel

4. Multiple sounds from two
component words are blended,
while mostly preserving the
sounds’ order. Poet Lewis Carroll
was well known for these kinds of
blends.
An example of this is the word slithy, a
blend of lithe and slimy.This method is
difficult to achieve and is considered a
sign of Carroll’s verbal. A recent
example is stagflation, a blend
of stagnation and inflation.

When two words are combined in their
entirety, the result is considered a compound
word rather than a blend. For
example, bagpipe is a compound, not a blend,
of bag and pipe.

Blending in morphology

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