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Meaning of circumfixation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
/ˌsəːkəmfɪˈkseɪʃən/

Definitions

The morphological phenomenon of circumfixing.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“As we have just seen, the encoding is quite versatile. In fact, it is not even limited to describing reduplicative patterns alone but can also handle infixations, circumfixations and truncations.”

Institute for German Linguistics, Marburg University

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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