A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH BLENDED WORDS

Abstract

This morphological research tries to explore blended words to find out their linguistic behaviors. Morphology is one branch of linguistics that identifies the basic units of a language as grammatical units called words. Another understanding states that morphology is a branch of linguistics that discusses or identifies the intricacies of word-formation. This science is better known as morphemics, which is the study of morphemes. Therefore, the core of the study of morphology is the word along with the rules for its formation and changes. Through this research, English blended words were analyzed through a morphological analysis as part of linguistics as a science. Blending is like a type of word formation in which two or more words can be merged into new words. Blending is another way of combining two words in order to generate a new word. In this study, 100 data of blended words obtained from the internet were analyzed to come to their linguistic behaviors. The data were broken down into categories after each of the data was identified, and then the main findings of morphological behaviors of blending were presented. An analysis of morphology on the blended words was employed to find out the linguistic behaviors of the blended words. A morphological synthesis on the behaviors of blending was presented to verify the findings of the research. Conclusions and suggestions based on the research findings were then put forward to ease the learning of linguistics in general as well as morphology in particular and to shed light that morphology as part of linguistics is not difficult to learn as well as to enjoy.