eprintid: 14856
rev_number: 10
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datestamp: 2014-12-24 17:06:31
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title: Shortening in English: Clipping and Blend Identification
language: english
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”.
keywords: word-building process, shortening, clipping, blending
creators_name: Чумак, Л. М.
creators_id: liudmylachumak@gmail.com
ispublished: pub
subjects: P1
divisions: sch_ela
full_text_status: public
date: 2011
publication: XVI TESOL – Ukraine International Conference: Current Studies in English: Linguistics and Methodology Perspectives: збірник наукових праць (англ. м.)
publisher: Кам’янейць-Подільський: ВПП “Апостроф”
pagerange: 38
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Чумак, Л. М.  (2011) Shortening in English: Clipping and Blend Identification.  XVI TESOL – Ukraine International Conference: Current Studies in English: Linguistics and Methodology Perspectives: збірник наукових праць (англ. м.).  с. 38.      
document_url: http://eprints.zu.edu.ua/14856/1/%D0%A7%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BA_3.pdf