Talk:Clipping (morphology)

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"shortened to one of its parts" suggests that an entire element in the sense of morpheme remains. Is this really the definition that you find in Bauer (this is the last name, not Laurie)? To my knowledge clipping refers either 1. to words "shortened (in any way)", 2. morph deletion (but not morpheme deletion, the latter being referred to as ellipsis). By the way, Bauer's work dates from 1983--or is this a revised edition? --Sinatra 15:54, 22 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I am not sure that apocope is a type of clipping. The word "apocope" is usually used to refer to a more or less subconscious deletion of a final sound, whether synchronically or diachronically, owing to the operation of laws of sound change or of phonology (Fr. "loup" from Vulgar Latin "lupu"). "Clipping" generally refers to a more or less conscious deletion of a final sound or sounds, with the deliberate intention of making a abbreviation (English "ad" from "advertisement"). Similarly with the other words. Any thoughts?--Gheuf 03:38, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The article for syncope says that syncope is the *deletion* of sounds from the middle of a word or phrase, not the *retention* of those sounds and the deletion of the rest. Middle clipping would be the opposite of syncope then... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.162.20.174 (talk) 23:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Merge of a fork
Hi, I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics about a merger between this page and Shortening (grammar). All input welcome, of course.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 05:02, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Middle Clipping Doesn't Clip The Middle
The types of Back Clipping and Fore Clipping clip the Back and Fore of the word or phrase, however Middle Clipping clips the outer parts of the word or phrase, retaining the middle. As such it appears to misnamed. Perhaps it should be Outer Clipping or something similar, just not Middle. Sudleyplace (talk) 18:33, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Clipping in Dutch
Looking for a dutch term for "Clipped language", I found this article, and on further digging I find the Dutch article "Deletie", which has the same list of *types* of clipping. The Dutch page is not linked here, however... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.240.70.227 (talk) 20:51, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
 * nl:Deletie (taalkunde) indeed doesn't link to any English articles, but appears to be about the concept of silence in linguistics, which is not quite the same as silent letters. The only language that has articles about both clipping and silence in linguistics is German, which has de:Verstummen and de:Kurzwort. Graham87 (talk) 03:17, 22 November 2023 (UTC)