Definitions
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- noun linguistics Word-
formation involving aninfix or infixes; adding an infix to a word. - noun grammar The
state orquality of being infixed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Without laryngeals, it should be already clear to a knowledgeable linguist that many languages simplify stems in oblique case forms without the need to appeal to arcane infixation of one 'miracle phoneme' or another.
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Without laryngeals, it should be already clear to a knowledgeable linguist that many languages simplify stems in oblique case forms without the need to appeal to arcane infixation of one 'miracle phoneme' or another.
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It may be that this putative prosodic breathy voice played a (limited) morphological role analogous to ablaut or n-infixation, explaining to some extent the apparent voiceless/voiced ("aspirated") root doublets.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?
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First assuming a consonantal *o, then assuming an infixation of this consonantal *o as a derivation.
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Phoenix: "First assuming a consonantal *o, then assuming an infixation of this consonantal *o as a derivation."
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A peculiarly interesting type of infixation is found in the Siouan languages, in which certain verbs insert the pronominal elements into the very body of the radical element, e.g.,
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While your “bon a-fucking-petite” is a very original example of expletive infixation, you put the “fucking” in the wrong place.
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This process is one which structural linguists call replacive infixation: it is familiarly illustrated by the substitution of e for a in the plural of the noun man or by the substitution of i for o in the past tense of the verb do.
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As part of my research for the previous installment of Preposterous Apostrophes, I looked in where people wrote “the king’s of England”, seeking out instance of infixation, where the possessive marker was appended to the head of the phrase rather than the end of the phrase.
Preposterous Apostrophes IV: History Lesson « Motivated Grammar
toner commented on the word infixation
fanfriggintastic (expletive infixation) or scrumdiddlyumptious ("diddly" infixation with partial reduplication).
December 29, 2006