Clippings. The development of usage and its distribution regarding formal and informal registers

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, course: Morphology, language: English, abstract: This paper focuses on the shortening process of clipping since the shortening of words in the English language already existed four centuries ago. The process is still gaining in importance as cli...