11.1309, Qs: Earliest Lexical Blending, Lexical Synonymy

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Subject: 11.1309, Qs: Earliest Lexical Blending, Lexical Synonymy

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Date:  Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:16:12 +0200
From:  Suzanne Kemmer <kemmer at eva.mpg.de>
Subject:  How old is lexical blending?

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Date:  Sun, 11 Jun 2000 13:23:32 GMT
From:  "gezim gurga" <gezim_gurga at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Bibliography of Lexical Synonymy

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Date:  Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:16:12 +0200
From:  Suzanne Kemmer <kemmer at eva.mpg.de>
Subject:  How old is lexical blending?


Does anybody know how old lexical blending is in English?
Besides the Lewis Carroll examples like _slithy_ and _chortle_,
which date from 1872, I have found one blend in George Eliot's Middlemarch
(_Corregiosity_) and then the next oldest I have are citations
in reference works : 1896 (_brunch_ ) and 1905 (_smog_).

Has anybody collected any earlier lexical blends? I would have
thought Dickens might have created some but of course it's difficult to
search until you know a specific example.  Shakespeare would
be another likely creator of blend neologisms.
(anybody know a Shakespeare list I can post this query to?).

Thanks for help.
Suzanne Kemmer


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Date:  Sun, 11 Jun 2000 13:23:32 GMT
From:  "gezim gurga" <gezim_gurga at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Bibliography of Lexical Synonymy

I am a lecturer of semantics at the University of Tirana (Albania) and a
have a desperate need for a bibliography on lexical synonymy.
Can you help me, please?
Gezim


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