Data Collection Method of the Study
word category of resulting blends followed afterwards. Taking duralumin
durable x aluminium shown in number 5 as the example, duralumin was
considered as a noun since it referred to a durable aluminium in which it had aluminium as the head. More specifically, the source words which made up
duralumin were durable as an adjective and aluminium as a noun. Therefore, what written in the third column of this blend was [A N]N.
The fourth, fifth, and sixth column presented the stress of source words and resulting blends. The fourth and fifth columns presented the stress placement of
the first source word and second source word in blends. Meanwhile, the sixth column showed the stress placement of resulting blends. For example, it was
written in number 9 Table 3.1 that the blend plumcot combined plum and apricot. The stress placement of plum was put in the fourth column as in
‘plum, ‘apricot in the fifth column, and
‘plumcot in the sixth column. The seventh column of Table 3.1 showed the semantic category of blends. It
varied depending on the meaning relations among the source words in blends. They might belong to endocentric blends, copulative blends, appositional blends,
or exocentric blends. Hereafter, these four categories were shortened for a practical reason. Therefore, they were shortened as EN, COP, APP, and EXO as
the representation of endocentric, copulative, appositional, and exocentric blends.
As seen in Table 3.1, biathlete biathlon x athlete belonged to EN, Chermany
China x Germany COP, desknote desktop x notebook APP, and
photopia photo x utopia EXO. More detailed explanation was presented in
the semantic analysis of this section.
Table 3.1 The Scheme of Morphological, Phonological, and Semantic Analysis of
English Blends
Blends Pattern
Word Category
SW1 SW2
Stress of Blends
Semantic Category
1. autopathography autobiography x
pathology E
[N N]N ,auto
bi‟og raphy
pa’tholo gy
,autopa‟thog raphy
EN
2. biathlete biathlon x
athl
ete OV1b
[N N]N bi‟athlon
„athlete bi‟athlete
EN
3. Chermany China x
Germany C
[N N]N „China
„Germa ny
„Chermany COP
4. desknote desktop x
notebook D
[N N]N „desktop
„notebo ok
„desk,note APP
5. duralumin durable x
a
luminium OV2b
[A N]N „durable
,alu‟min ium
du‟ralumin EN