fractomorpheme
fractomorpheme noun: a productive morpheme (one which readily forms new words) which originates as a shortened form of another word.
Noun
fractomorpheme (plural fractomorphemes)
- A productive morpheme (one which readily forms new words) which originates as a shortened form of another word.
- In sum, "pussy blends" are more likely to fall into the category of secreted affixation, in which case -ussy would have become, however ephemerally, a fractomorpheme (cf. Watergate > -gate).2018, Michael Dow, “A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends”, in Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Ottawa: Canadian Linguistic...
Forms of fractomorpheme
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Origin of fractomorpheme
Borrowed from French fractomorphème, itself coined by French linguist Jean Tournier. By surface analysis, fracto- + morpheme.
Questions about fractomorpheme
- What does fractomorpheme mean?
- Fractomorpheme means a productive morpheme (one which readily forms new words) which originates as a shortened form of another word.
- What part of speech is fractomorpheme?
- Fractomorpheme is a noun.
- What is the plural of fractomorpheme?
- The plural of fractomorpheme is fractomorphemes.
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