| 单词 |
affixation |
| 释义 |
affixation|æfɪkˈseɪʃən| [n. of action f. med.L. affīxāre, freq. of affīg-ĕre: see affix.] 1. The action of affixing or attaching; attachment; = affixion.
1851I. Taylor Wesley (1852) 190 The affixation of a name to a Christian Institute. 2. Morphol. The attachment of an affix or affixes to (the root or stem of) a word.
1921E. Sapir Language iv. 75 We have reserved the very curious type of affixation known as ‘infixing’ for separate illustration. 1964C. Barber Flux of Lang. xv. 260 More popular words also continue to arise in large numbers, especially by affixation, conversion, and compounding. 1969S. Potter Changing Eng. iii. 70 German and Dutch, like ancient Greek, make greater use of composition (or compounding) than derivation (or affixation). 1979Amer. Speech 1978 LIII. 267 Ablaut does not by nature entail greater morphonemic irregularity than affixation. |

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