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    HYBRIDIZATION AND PHONO-SEMANTIC MATCHING IN URDU NEOLOGISM A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF HYBRID WORDS IN URDU NEWSPAPERS
    (UMT, Lahore, 2024) Saadia Rasheed
    Borrowing English lexical items in Urdu is a frequently occurring phenomenon that often leads to new word formations which are called neologisms. This research aims to reveal the neologisms in Urdu from English through hybridization and phono-semantic matching. The study provides an overview of new word formations in the Urdu language and the structure of hybrid and PSM words. For this purpose, the study extracts data from Urdu newspapers’ texts and develops corpora of these words. Due to the absence of software for extracting and sorting hybrid data, all the words have been extracted manually. Parallel English and Urdu corpora were collected for dictionaries and translation purposes. The current study has employed a quantitative corpus linguistics methodology and qualitative interpretation to address the research questions.The analysis results in two major categories of hybridization; single hybrid words and compound hybrid words.