Lappe and Plag’s Study on the Role of Prosodic Structure in the
Dealing with classifications of blend, the patterns of combining source words into blends are also taken into account. Algeo 1977 as cited in Hong
2004: 120 said that English blends were classified into three combining patterns, namely blends with clipping, blends with overlapping, and blends with clipping
and overlapping. The first combining pattern consisted of blends with clipping. Blends with clipping occured when one part or more was deleted. Enarsson 2006:
5 mentioned four types which fitted into this pattern. The first type was when the whole part of the first word joined together with the last part of the second word.
The examples were foodoholic food + alcoholic and fanzine fan + magazine. The second type was when the first part of the first word combined with the whole
part of the second word. The blends Eurasia Europe + Asia were the examples of the second type. The third type was when the first part of the first word
combined with the last part of the second word. The blend brunch breakfast + lunch became the example. The fourth type was when the first part of both
elements was combined. The examples were agitprop agitation + propaganda and aldehyde alcohol + dehydrogenatum.
Blends with overlapping occured when there was an overlap in both of the source words. Examples provided by Enarsson 2006: 4 were cellebrity cell +
celebrity and sinema sin + cinema. It was obvious that there were elements of two source words which were similar so that it created an overlap in the blend. In
celebrity, the word cell completely overlapped with the first part of second word celebrity to form a blend cellebrity. Doing the same analysis, in sinema, the
overlap occurred between the whole first word sin and the first part of second
source word cinema.
In terms of blends with clipping and overlapping, Algeo 1977 as cited in Enarsson 2006: 6 presented some examples. They were Californication
California + fornication, suspose suspect + suppose, and Hungarican Hungarian + American. Examining these examples, it was obvious that blends
with clipping and overlapping included both clipping and overlapping segments. In addition, Lehrer 2007: 118 presented five patterns of English blends.
Firstly, blends were created from a full word followed by a splinter. The instance was the blend steelionaire which was the combination of a full word steel and a
splinter millionaire. Secondly, the pattern was the contrary of the first one. It was the combination of a splinter and a full word. The example of this pattern was
Eurasia. It combined a splinter Europe and a full word Asia. Thirdly, it could be formed from two splinters. The example was the blend agitprop. Agitprop was
formed by combining two splinters agitation and propaganda. Fourthly, blends were structured from the complete overlap of one or more morpheme. In
this pattern, there was no splinter combined. Rather, there was an overlap. The blend cellebrity obtained from cell and celebrity, for instance, there was an
overlap part in cell. Lastly, the last pattern was the rare one. It was formed when the word or clipping was embedded in another word, thus it was treated as an
infix. The example was chortle which combined chuckle and snort. In chortle, the part of word snort was embedded as an infix in the word chuckle.