10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORTMANTEAUX»
Discover the use of
portmanteaux in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
portmanteaux and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vocabulary Instruction for Academic Success
Here we share portmanteaux, eponyms, toponyms, and words borrowed from
other languages. Portmanteaux Portmanteaux are words that are formed by
combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words. Sometimes called “
blends,” ...
Hallie Kay Yopp, Ruth Helen Yopp, Ashley Bishop, 2008
2
Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions
ply used de, a suppletive form, where QF has a gap, therefore I see no reason to
have a different analysis for SF: à and de cannot combine with plural and definite
NPs, instead the portmanteaux à-des, aux, à-la, au, de, des, de-la, du must be ...
Patrick Saint-Dizier, 2006
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Neologisms,
Portmanteaux, and Morphemes: The Veracity of ...
Language is a living, evolving form of communication and the modern lexicon inevitably absorbs words that are made-up through abbreviations and linguistic blends.This book focuses on such words, from neologism to the portmanteau, morpheme, ...
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Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems and Poetics
Portmanteaux. It's no accident that Carroll, perhaps the greatest of the kiddy's
rhymesters, should celebrate the expansive meanings ofhisart's
apparentlysimple infant speak interms of travellers' clothesbagsinto which
muchcanbe packed: ...
Valentine Cunningham, 2011
Examining post road, - - - - Portmanteaux, - - - Printing blanks, &c, - Portmanteaux
, - Expenses as agent, (special,) - Printing circulars, &c, - Furnishing stamps, &c, -
Advertising, - - - - - Mail bags, - - - - - Locks and keys, . " Portmanteaux, - Do.
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Congressional Serial Set
... Mail locks and keys, - - - - Advertising, - - - - - Portmanteaux, - Twine and
wrapping paper, - Furnishing blanks and twine, - - - Printing, - - - Twine, - - - - Mail
bags, portmanteaux, &c. Advertising for carrying mail, Mail bags, - - -
Portmanteaux, .
Keats, an habitually bad speller, often found his own misplaced letters generating
intriguing portmanteaux, as when in a letter to Fanny Brawne he inadvertently
penned 'purplue' for 'purple', and then reflected on what a fine appellation this ...
John R. Strachan, Richard G. Terry, 2000
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Alice Beyond Wonderland: Essays for the Twenty-first Century
Rachel Falconer ' Underworld Portmanteaux Dante's Hell and Carroll's
Wonderland in Women's Memoirs of Mental Illness Explicating the elision of "lithe
" and "slimy" into the neologism "slithy" in Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky," Humpty
Dumpty ...
Cristopher Hollingsworth, 2009
He sat back, thinking, “Where was it that words were called portmanteaux?
Maybe in Lewis Carroll?”He kept on looking at the suitcases trying to imagine
them full of meanings, implications, connotations, misunderstandings and
contradictions.
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Morphology: Word structure in generative grammar
3.5 Portmanteaux and Feature Nesting Like phonological features, we regard
these morphological features as universal, providing a range of possible feature
combinations that languages can make use of. Of course, all languages do not
use ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORTMANTEAUX»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
portmanteaux is used in the context of the following news items.
Traducing Dr. Seuss
He wrote and edited scores of picture books for young children, reveling in language that bounced from monosyllables to verbal portmanteaux ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
All Aboard for Alaska: Cruising Alaska's Inside Passage on the …
... board it's the usual chaos of passengers from everywhere but your seat taking up the bin space above your seat with their vast portmanteaux. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Puerto Rico Can't Afford Its Debt
Can other portmanteaux like "PRaccident" or a "PReferendum" be far behind?) We'll give the "Puerto Rico is America's Greece" crowd one ... «iStockAnalyst, Jul 15»
Greece crisis: Tsipras promises to hold vote - as it happened
RBS have published another of their 'grupdates' (when will the portmanteaux stop?). They write: The first public poll out on the Greek ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Grexit, Grexident and Greferendum
Grexit, Grexident and now Greferendum – the debt crisis in Greece has thrown up plenty of portmanteaux, as linguistics professors call these ... «CNBC, Jun 15»
The fetish fables of 'The Little Death' score
NEW YORK: I come to praise portmanteaux, anthologies, omnibuses – whatever you want to call them. As a storytelling convention, those ... «The Daily Star, Jun 15»
GALLERY: Twenty-four new words recently added to the Urban …
That's how we end up with so many portmanteaux, or blends as contemporary descriptivist linguists refer to them. The most well known are the ... «Newstalk 106-108 fm, Apr 15»
Please, no more burgers! Why I'm sick of the American food trend
Move over burgers, the kebab is moving into town. Cue Yotam Ottolenghi's imminent new venture. Cronuts and other portmanteaux in baking. «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
A racist carrot reclaims Australia
7 Apr 2015 0:07. 34 35. Halalarious: when it is permissible to laugh at something but really it is too depressing for words, even portmanteaux. «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Choreplay is the latest in bedtime bait-and-switch
In a world littered with portmanteaux like “lumbersexual” and “jorts,” I recently tripped over what may be the worst offender of them all: ... «Long Beach Press Telegram, Mar 15»
