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%J XVI TESOL ? Ukraine International Conference: Current Studies in English: Linguistics and Methodology Perspectives: ??????? ???????? ????? (????. ?.)
%T Shortening in English: Clipping and Blend Identification
%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?.
%K word-building process, shortening, clipping, blending
%P 38
%D 2011
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%L zu214856