How To Use Affixation In A Sentence
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Root and pattern affixation is considered nonlinear since neither of the two morphological components appears in continuous form; rather, they are interdigitated within each other.
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If affixation means forming a word by adding an affix (e.g. frosty from frost, refusal from refuse, instrumentation from instrument), then back-formation is essentially this process in reverse: it adapts an existing word by removing its affix, usually a suffix (e.g. sulk from sulky, proliferate from proliferation, back-form from back-formation).
Back-forming back-formations
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In fact, this method (zero-affixation) of forming nouns from verbs used to be quite commonplace.
2009 July « Motivated Grammar
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In summary, their “results suggest that, in the absence of training, cotton-top tamarins learn a rule that is formally similar to affixation patterns [...] in natural language.”
2009 July « Motivated Grammar
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That is, the traditional concept of witnessing the affixation of a traditional signature reduces the incidence of forged signatures.
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Maybe the governance had passed away from affixation from her obsession with gasoline.
Nevertheless The Plan Was Not Implemented
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[...] nonhuman animals may have the capacity to learn surface transformations involved in affixation, but they cannot link them to other aspects of linguistic structure.
“Quotes” and monkey grammar at the BBC « Motivated Grammar
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SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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When I wrote that back-formation was “essentially [affixation] in reverse”, I was simplifying matters somewhat.
Back-forming back-formations
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SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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She has attested as secretary to the affixation of the seal.
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In coordinate dependency, however, the order of clausal constituency seems to be intimately related to that of affixation.
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Lexical words are generally fitted into the flow of language through such mechanisms as affixation, suppletion, stress shift, and vowel change, all of which have morphological and other effects.
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SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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The main aspect of real estate brand includes enterprise brand and project brand. Enterprise brand will increase project well-know and affixation value. Project brand will enrich enterprise brand.
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Newspapers - even the venerable New York Times - printed flags across entire back pages for affixation to windows.
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SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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For a finished Chinese painting or calligraphy work, seals (also called stamp or chop) are very important. The affixation of the seals of a Chinese painting has its unique artistry.