Contamination ( lat. Contaminatio "mixing") in linguistics - the emergence of a new expression or form (sometimes - under the influence of folk etymology ) by combining elements of two expressions or forms, something similar. For example, the incorrect expression “play meaning” arose as a contamination of two expressions “play a role” and “have a value”. In addition to compounds in one-two-way expressions or proverbs (“Do not spit in the well, take off - do not catch”, “Woman with wolves and the wolves are fed”) contamination is also called a combination of names and words (more precisely roots ), for example, “F. Tolstoevsky "(Tolstoy and Dostoevsky)," tragicomic "(from the tragic and comic ) or" At the Poetry Academy - in a white marble swimming pool "( Igor Severyanin ) [1] .
See also
- Word line
Literature
- Culture of Russian Speech: Encyclopedic Dictionary-Reference / Under. ed. Ivanova L. Yu. And others. - M. , 2011. - 840 p. - ISBN 978-5-89349-389-4 .
- Lavrova, Natalia Alexandrovna. Contamination in modern English . - M .: Prometheus, 2012. - 220 p. - ISBN 9785704222781 .