Hybrid word

Hybrid formation (also: hybrid formation ) occurs in linguistics in two very different areas, namely in the

• Word formation and in the
• Dialectology.

Hybrid formation in the word formation

The word education is meant by hybrid formation complex words, their parts of at least two different languages ​​come. Particularly common are the German grammar such words, in which a part of the German Erbwortschatz comes, another from a foreign language. The well-known German word formation of Fleischer & Barz (1995 ) devoted to these phenomena under the title hybridization a whole chapter. An example of a hybrid formation is about the word simpleton, in which the foreign word appears naive combined with the German Ableitungsmorphem -ling.

Hybrid formation in dialectology

In dialectology be understood as hybrid forms of education that are used as hypercorrection concluded when dialect speakers try to adapt to the default language and form false analogies. As an example, it is argued that in a dialect in which the word is used as well jut, adaptation leads to good standard language to pronounce, but then this volume replacement is transferred to other examples where it is standard linguistically wrong. So it may come to Gunge instead boy. For the name of this ceremony is occupied by the king.