This article expounds the
most typical features of blends as well as the empirical and theoretical issues they
raise. The approaches that have been proposed to deal with them are presented. The
last section gives criteria aiming at disentangling blends from the constructs they
have often been confused with.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage