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2. Blend word - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau [a] —is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] English examples include smog , coined by blending smoke and fog , [ 3 ] [ 5 ] as well as motel , from motor ( motorist ) and hotel .

3. Contraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   The words ci and è (form of essere, to be) and the words vi and è are contracted into c'è and v'è (both meaning "there is"). " C'è / V'è un problema" – There is a problem The words dove and come are contracted with any word that begins with e , deleting the -e of the principal word, as in "Com'era bello!"

4. Crasis - Wikipedia

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   Crasis (/ ˈ k r eɪ s ɪ s /; [1] from the Greek κρᾶσις, lit. ' mixing ' or ' blending ') [2] is a type of contraction in which two vowels or diphthongs merge into one new vowel or diphthong, making one word out of two (univerbation).

5. Morphology (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   There is also word formation in the processes of clipping in which a portion of a word is removed to create a new one, blending in which two parts of different words are blended into one, acronyms in which each letter of the new word represents a specific word in the representation (NATO for North Atlantic Treaty Organization), borrowing in ...

6. Compound (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Compounding occurs when two or more words or signs are joined to make a longer word or sign. Consequently, a compound is a unit composed of more than one stem, forming words or signs. If the joining of the words or signs is orthographically represented with a hyphen, the result is a hyphenated compound (e.g., must-have, hunter-gatherer).

7. Merge (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Merge is one of the basic operations in the Minimalist Program, a leading approach to generative syntax, when two syntactic objects are combined to form a new syntactic unit (a set). Merge also has the property of recursion in that it may be applied to its own output: the objects combined by Merge are either lexical items or sets that were ...