Meaning of suffixlessness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being suffixless.

uncountable

Examples

“The strict rule of the genitive anticipation in the Altaic languages originated on the basis of the suffixlessness of the genitive.”

“Subtle circumstantial evidence in favor of the short impf having had suffixal encodation of some sort might be the fact that the later dialects consistently show bridges in the impf—unlike the impa, whose assumed original suffixlessness arguably resonates in a certain amount of later bridgelessness (especially in TR); see §2.3.4.1.”

“In view of the fact that Bemerkungen was the intended item, the error word Bemerke may be interpreted as involving the deletion of the nominalizing suffix -ung. This loss may be understood as an interference of the suffixlessness of Vermerk ‘note’.”

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