univerbization

plural univerbizations

1. countableuncommonuncountablehuman sciencesUniverbation, or the process of the creation of one.

   J. Bosák, ib., 231-37, discusses univerbization and the frequent stylistic shift of words formed in this way from colloquial to neutral.

   1987, James Naughton, “II. Slovak Studies. Language”, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, volume 49, page 906 of 901–909

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   None of the words in the left column can be viewed as being derived from the phrases in the right column by univerbization transformation because the pairs of items differ in terms of either gender or number.

   1986, Piotr Ruszkiewicz, “One some recent claims concerning derivational morphology”, in Linguistics Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries. In Honour of Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday (Trends in Linguistics; 32), volumes 2. Descriptive, Contrastive and Applied Linguistics, Berlin: De Gruyter, page 1036 of 1025 seqq.

   Semantic condensations and univerbizations (that is, the reduction of semantically transparent compounds to one stem expressions omitting the explanandum), developed in the 19th century by Croatian for the same puristic reasons, found their way (slightly adapted phonologically) into the Macedonian standard as well. For example: […]

   2016, Christian Voss, “Language and Macedonian identities”, in Clare Mar-Molinero, Patrick Stevenson, editors, Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices. Language and the Future of Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 125 of 118–132