Q: `workaholic'

[Guido Mensching]

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A German term for this phenomenon is "Kontaminativkompositum". This term
is used by Seewald (1994:84-87) in order to describe French words like
 
bureautique < bureau + informatique
didacticiel < didactique + logiciel
bandothe'que <  bande + bibliote'hque
 
(cf. also e'ducatique, graphiciel, iconothe'que). According to Seewald
this phenomenon is a kind of mixture of  composition and suffixation, and
she considers  elements like "-theque" and "-iel" as suffixes, though
the derivational base may be mutilated like in "linguiciel" (linguistique
+ logiciel).
In Zwanenburg (1990:75) the same phenomenon is called "telescopage".
 
Bibliography:
 
Seewald, Uta (1994)  Maschinelle morphosemantische Analyse des
Franzo"sischen "MORSE". Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel des Wortschatzes der
Datenverarbeitung. Tu"bingen (= Sprache und Information. Beitra"ge zur
philologischen und linguistischen Datenverarbeitung, Informatik und
Informationswissenschaft, Bd. 26)
 
Zwanenburg, Wiecher (1990): Franzo"sische Wortbildungslehre. In:
Holtus e.a. (eds.): Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik vol. V,1 p.
72-77
 
With best regards,
 
Guido Mensching
 
 
 
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