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affix

(a′fiks″) [L. affixus, fastened to]

An element attached to a word that alters its meaning, e.g., a prefix or a suffix.

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Variables such as frequency of combination, semantic transparency, affixal salience and expectedness are important for the pattern character of the affix combination; that is, for the capacity of a specific affix combination, as a whole, to function as a mental pattern that serves the analysis and, if productive, the construction of words.

Limits on the extension of affixal combination: structural restrictions and processing conditions/Ogranicenja pri prosirivanju afiksalnih kombinacija: strukturna ogranicenja i uvjeti procesiranja

All non-basic affixal (prefixed as well as suffixed) adjectives have been analysed in this research, totalling 3,356.

Old English adjectival affixation: structure and function

Two word-formation processes play a role in the formation of adjectives in Old English, both of an affixal nature: prefixation and suffixation.

Syntactic and semantic rules in old English adjective formation

(9) ka-lcps-u 2-beat-3O 'You beat him.' (10) ka-lcm -ma 2-beat-1SGO 'You beat me.' In intransitive verb conjugation, the prefix <ka-> indexes second person subject in the affixal string.

The person-marking affixes in Chhatthare Limbu

The Nancowrv Word: Phonology, Affixal Morphology and Roots of a Nicobarese Language.

The dual theory of reduplication *

With regard to the frequency and distribution of affixal and non-affixal negatives, Tottie observes that the higher frequency of affixal negation in written varieties of English is associated with the higher frequency of premodifying adjectives in writing.

Negation as a stylistic feature in Joseph Heller's Catch-22: a corpus study (1)

Affixal nouns in Old English: Morphological description, multiple bases and recursivity.

Closing suffixes in Old English: a study based on recursive affixation

It is also worth pointing out that in grammatical studies of Estonian, a language closely related to Finnish, an expression type that closely resembles quasi-adpositions has traditionally been called affixal adverb.

Breaking through: how force dynamic strength varies in finnish adpositional constructions with the adposition lapi 'through'

The presence of the zero or affixal morpheme (defective form) at the v head may motivates movement of the noun into this position.

Verbos Denominais no Portugues Brasileiro: diferenciando estruturas diacronicas e sincronicas com uma abordagem em Morfologia Distribuida

Example: the postposition gha may take an affixal, one-word or phrasal complement.

Phonetics and word definition in Ahtna Athabascan *

This will be illustrated by analyzing the semantics of the negative affixal class, which includes two main subclasses: the lexical subclass of oppositive affixes and the subclass of reversatives.

Negative affixation within the lexical grammar model

Word-formation studies often speak in this regard of "polysemy" or "affixal polysemy".