Blends have long been a source of new lexical elements in English word formation. Classic examples of such elements include -burger in words like soyburger or oysterburger, -furter in words like turkeyfurter or chickenfurter and -scape in cloudscape or manscape. Among more recent examples are -zilla (bridezilla, momzilla), -cation (staycation, mancation) or -splain(ing) (mansplaining, whitesplaining). Some of these have been studied in greater or lesser detail, highlighting various researchers’ interests in the topic, such as regularities in blend formation, formal and semantic patterns of blends, or the emergence of new combining forms from lexical blends (see in particular Baldi & Dawar, 2000; Frath, 2005; Kemmer, 2003; Lalić–Krstin, 2014; Lehrer, 1998; Mattiello, 2017a, 2017b; Panić–Kavgić & Kavgić, 2009).

长期以来，混合词一直是英语构词中新词汇元素的来源。此类元素的经典示例包括-burger，如soyburger或oysterburger，-furter，如turkeyfurter或chickenfurter，以及-scape，如cloudscape或manscape。最近的例子有-zilla（bridezilla、momzilla）、-cation（staycation、mancation）或-splain(ing)（mansplaining，whitesplaining ). 其中一些已经或多或少地进行了详细研究，突出了各种研究人员对该主题的兴趣，例如混合形成的规律性，混合的形式和语义模式，或词汇混合中新组合形式的出现（特别参见 Baldi & Dawar, 2000；Frath, 2005；Kemmer, 2003；Lalić–Krstin, 2014；Lehrer, 1998；Mattiello, 2017a, 2017b；Panić–Kavgić & Kavgić, 2009)。