Figurativity and Human Ecology

This corpus-based proposal provides a fine-grained study of lexical blending in the English language in terms of cognitive modeling. Blending as a word-formation process has gained growing popularity in recent years either to fill certain lexical/conceptual gaps or simply to endow language with creativity. Blended words are defined as combinations of two or more lexemes, one of which at least has been clipped (Bauer, 2003; Plag, 2003). Researchers of different persuasions have addressed topics l