Essays about: "Lexical blends"

Found 2 essays containing the words Lexical blends.

  1. 1. Blending Words or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blendguage : A computational study of lexical blending in Swedish

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för datorlingvistik

    Author : Adam Ek; [2018]
    Keywords : Lexical blends; regression; word formation; feature ablation; ranking;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates Swedish lexical blends. A lexical blend is defined as the concatenation of two words, where at least one word has been reduced. Lexical blends are approached from two perspectives. First, the thesis investigates lexical blends as they appear in the Swedish language. READ MORE

  3. 2. Beauty and the Blend : Implications of Cognitive Constraints and Word Class Distribution in Lexical Blending

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Daniel Kjellander; [2015]
    Keywords : Blending; wordplay; word formation; morphology.;

    Abstract : This master thesis investigates underlying principles and usage-based aspects of lexical blending. In a corpus study examining the lexical items, or matrix words, republican, liberal, and vegetarian it was found that there were three cognitive constraints influencing their potential to form blends. READ MORE