Portmanteau (disambiguation)

With portmanteau (also: Portemanteau ) are in linguistics refers to two distinctive issues:

1 As a portmanteau word ( portmanteau word ) the partial fusion of the words ( yes no), Kurlaub is addressed, as in examples such as yes and no ( cure vacation) is known. In these cases, the underlying phonetic words are identified. Connect as the often contradictory meanings of the output words to a new and surprising meaning.

2 As a portmanteau morpheme morphemes are understood to form a morphologically indivisible unit, but represent meanings or grammatical functions that occur else morphologically separated in the language. The prime example of this is French [ o] written, which is not analyzable as a single sound, but for the Morphemkombination à le ( preposition article) is. In German, there is a similar relationship in the word form are above that can not be further decomposed into morphs as well, but " be " for the meanings " 1st or 3rd person, plural, indicative, present tense " is; at other German verbs can be segmented into the appropriate shape morphs: go -en, game -en ...