Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Lexical Blending

Download or read book Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Lexical Blending written by Vincent Renner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume brings together a well-selected collection of twelve articles providing a comprehensive and very informative summary of contemporary work on lexical blending. It combines theoretically informed descriptions of a variety of languages and a number of contributions with a theoretically original focus. It is the first book of its kind on the subject, and because of its cross-disciplinary nature, it is of high relevance not only to word-formation scholars and students, but also to a wide readership within the linguistics community.