Cross-disciplinary perspectives on lexical blending

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.

Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: A bird's-eye view of lexical blending /; Blends: Core and periphery /; Beyond all reasonable transgression: Lexical blending in alternative music /; Blend formation in Modern Greek /; Lexical blending in Polish: A result of the internationalisation of Slavic languages /; Ukrainian Blends: Elicitation paradigm and structural analysis /; Are reduced compounds compounds? Morphological and prosodic properties of reduced compounds in Russian and Mandarin Chinese /; Blending between grammar and universal cognitive principles: Evidence from German, Farsi, and Chinese /; Quantitative corpus data on blend formation: Psycho- and cognitive-linguistic perspectives /; A Combinatory Logic and formal-semantic account of lexical blending /; Stress in English blends: A constraint-based analysis /; Output-to-output faithfulness in the phonological structure of English blends /; Portmanteaus as generalized templates /; Contributors --; Index / Renner, Vincent / Maniez, François / Arnaud, Pierre J. L. --; Bauer, Laurie --; López Rúa, Paula --; Ralli, Angela / Xydopoulos, George J. --; Konieczna, Ewa --; Borgwaldt, Susanne R. / Kulish, Tetyana / Bose, Arpita --; Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco / Montermini, Fabio --; Ronneberger-Sibold, Elke --; Gries, Stefan Th. --; Bassac, Christian --; Bat-El, Outi / Cohen, Evan-Gary --; Tomaszewicz, Ewa --; Trommer, Jochen / Zimmermann, Eva --