@article{zu214856,
           title = {Shortening in English: Clipping and Blend Identification},
          author = {?. ?. ?????},
       publisher = {??????????-???????????: ??? ??????????},
            year = {2011},
           pages = {38},
         journal = {XVI TESOL ? Ukraine International Conference: Current Studies in English: Linguistics and Methodology Perspectives: ??????? ???????? ????? (????. ?.)},
        keywords = {word-building process, shortening, clipping, blending},
             url = {http://eprints.zu.edu.ua/14856/},
        abstract = {Shortening is considered a very productive word-building process. It is the dropping of the part of a word so as to produce a new and shorter word of the same or different meaning. In English, shortenings may be presented by acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms, clippings, blends, and back-formations. Each of them has its own pattern, but it is sometimes difficult to identify a given shortening. The following paper concentrates on the specific word-formation processes ?clipping? and ?blending?.}
}