THE MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH BLENDED WORDS

Abstract

This research was made with the aim of helping English students who are studying word mixing in morphology to understand how blended words are formed, to be more familiar with the individual words making up blended words, and how to best use them. A list of 100 mixed words that are often used in daily life is used as a sample. The study starts by measuring the extent to which students understand mixed words that are commonly used in daily life. Afterward, it tries to find out some of the reasons why there are still so many students who are unfamiliar with how blended words are formed or the individual words making up the words. To date, the identification of mixing boundaries as a type of word formation has been a widely debated issue in morphological studies. In particular, whether mixing is primarily a word creation phenomenon or a regular and predictable word formation mechanism remains an open question. Rather than maintaining an argument for one position or another, this study aims to investigate the underlying factors of that distinction and develop criteria that can be applied to the corpus data to describe specific examples of mixing such as the dots on the cline ranging from word creation to word production. This study describes the characteristics of English blended words to students and how blended words are made up of individual words often in abbreviated forms. This research is a qualitative descriptive type. Blending is a technique in combining two or more words and then combining them into one, commonly with at least one of the words being abbreviated. The use of blending is common in creating advertisements due to its unique properties and its ability to attract attention. It is hoped that the results of this research are significant enough for those learning linguistics, especially of morphology as the science of word-formation.