wanna contraction

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English

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Etymology

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From wanna (nominalised usage) +‎ contraction.

Noun

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wanna contraction (plural wanna contractions)

  1. (linguistics) A style of contraction (such as want to into wanna, or going to into gonna) that may or may not be possible depending on the sense of to.

Further reading

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  • Paul Warren (2012) Introducing Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press
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