Meaning of confixation | Babel Free

Definitions

Word formation involving a confix.

rare, uncountable, usually

Examples

“The French footing is a confixation combining the element foot- in football with the productive French suffix -ing; […]”

“Besides derivation, we find confixation, where none of the monemes involved exist outside of synthemes: carnivore, for instance, is a confixative.”

“The typology of combinatory word-formation presented here (see Hoppe, et al. 1987: 442–44) allows for the inclusion of confixation alongside composition and derivation and hence for neo-Classical combinations, essential to which is a confix, especially in combination with another confix.”

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