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affixal

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af·fix  (-fks)
tr.v. af·fixed, af·fix·ing, af·fix·es
1. To secure to something; attach: affix a label to a package.
2. To impute; attribute: affix blame to him.
3. To place at the end; append: affix a postscript to a letter.
4. Grammar To add as an affix.
n. (fks)
1. Something that is attached, joined, or added; an appendage or addition.
2. Linguistics A word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that can only occur attached to a base, stem, or root.
[Medieval Latin affixre, frequentative of Latin affgere, affix- : ad-, ad- + fgere, to fasten; see dhgw- in Indo-European roots.]
af·fixa·ble adj.
affixal adj.
affixal·ly adv.
af·fixer n.
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Adj.1.affixal - of or pertaining to a linguistic affix
affixial
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Unlike their Indo-European counterparts, declension classes in Estonian are not cued by gender (or, indeed, by any obvious syntactic or semantic property), and they are not, for the most part, marked by distinctive affixal variation.
Declension classes in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Blevins, James P. / Linguistica Uralica
The most serious criticism of the affix-stripping hypothesis concerns the fact that a mere listing of affixal conjunctions it presupposes fails to express word-formation rules governing the order of application of affixes, phonological and orthographic interactions between roots and affixes, as well as restrictions upon conjunctions.
Lexical-level representation of morphologically complex words: ... by Cieslicka, Anna / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
In Indo-European languages, classes are predominantly marked by affixal variation, while inflectional stems tend to be relatively constant.
Conjugation classes in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Blevins, James P. / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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