%0 Journal Article
%A Чумак, Л. М.
%D 2011
%F zu2:14856
%I Кам’янейць-Подільський: ВПП “Апостроф”
%J XVI TESOL – Ukraine International Conference: Current Studies in English: Linguistics and Methodology Perspectives: збірник наукових праць (англ. м.)
%K word-building process, shortening, clipping, blending
%P 38
%T Shortening in English: Clipping and Blend Identification
%U http://eprints.zu.edu.ua/14856/
%X 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”.