Citations:interfix

English citations of interfix

'interfix' used to describe something inserted between words in a compound (and which is arguably considered meaningless by the person calling it an 'interfix', even though some are arguably meaningfully genitival)

2009 July 30, James P. Blevins, Juliette Blevins, Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 121:
... interfix and occasionally with another. For instance, the abstract nominal suffix -heid occurs most frequently with the interfix -s- as in snelheid + s + controle > snelheidscontrole 'speed control', sometimes without any interfix as in […]
2017 December 15, Wolfgang U. Dressler, F. Nihan Ketrez, Marianne Kilani-Schoch, Nominal Compound Acquisition, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 30:
The 28 )three-year-old) children of the INPUT project produced at data points 1 and 2 among 329 compounds only 16 interfix errors, e.g.: interfix omission in Geburt+s+tag(+s)+kuchen 'birthday cake', interfix addition in Tanz+schul(+e)+krone 'dance school crown'.

serving to join words

2017 January 6, Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera, Lívia Körtvélyessy, Word-Formation across Languages, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 58:
Consequently, -ek and the intermorph -o- in bawidamek 'ladies' man' are treated as co-formatives by Szymanek (2010, 223). In (3) examples are provided of Polish compounds proper which consist of two nominal stems linked by the intermorph -o-. They can be treated as coordinate structures […] a. barman-o-kelner / bartender-INTERFIX-waiter / 'a bartender and waiter' / b. chlop-o-robotnik / peasant-INTERFIX-worker / 'a peasant farmer who works in a factory' / c. klub-o-kawiarnia / club-INTERFIX-cafè / 'a cafè that hosts cultural events' / d. kurs-o-konferencja / training-INTERFIX-conference / 'a training conference' / e. spódnic-o-spodnie / skirt-INTERFIX-trousers / 'skort, culottes' / f. gad-o-ptak / reptile-INTERFIX-bird / 'archaeopteryx'

serving another purpose, e.g. diminutive, iterative, etc

2017 January 17, Ejeba, Salem Ochala, A Grammar of Igala, M & J Grand Orbit Communications, →ISBN, page 115:
The form -tɛ́- is a pejorative extensional interfix when it functions as a marker of derision as in (55). (55) ɔ̀là 'word' - ɔ̀là-tɛ́-ɔ̀là 'anyhow word/poor words' […] The interfix -tɛ́- functions as an iterative extensional marker when it indicates the repetition of a sequence of events within a specified time frame. It is a temporal morpheme since it usually occurs with nouns measuring time. Examples of the interative extensional interfix are given in (57). (57) ɔ́dɔ́ 'year' - ɔ́dɔ́-tɛ́-ɔ́dɔ́ 'from year to year'
2021 May 3, Antonio Fábregas, Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Grant Armstrong, María Cristina Cuervo, Isabel Pujol Payet, The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology, Routledge, →ISBN:
[...] interfix also lengthens the word, as in sol 'sun' > solecito 'sun + ec + dim.' *solito. For Alvar Ezquerra (1993), even the diminutive formant -it- can be considered an interfix. The verbal suffix e + ar (see Batiukova, this volume) can […]

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2015 March 30, Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen, Franz Rainer, Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 558:
Among the other functions attributed to interfixes is the distinction of possible homonyms, if both derivatives were contructed without an interfix: Sp. llamada 'cal' ← llamar 'to call' / llamarada 'blaze' ← llama 'flame'; Oc. porquièr 'pig-keeper' / porcatièr 'pig-merchant' […] But the contrast in meaning is not connected to the choice of a particular interfix, and much more numerous are the examples of synonyms constructed with and without interfix (e.g., Oc. gatièra / gatonièra 'cat flap' ← gat 'cat') or with different interfixes (e.g., Oc. vimenièr / vimotièr 'osier grove' ← vim 'osier'). More convincing is the idea that an interfix could adapt a base for a derivation in which the base normally does not enter.
2015 December 29, Chinwe Onumajuru, Affixation and Auxiliaries in Igbo, African Books Collective, →ISBN, page 72:
The first stage comprises examples of -me- interfixes followed by examples of -l- interfixes in the second stage.
a. The -m- Interfix.
BASE (VERB) / INTERFIX / DERIVATIVE / GLOSS
89 Lí eat / -m- / Élímélí / Banquet/Feast
Sí cook / -m- / Ésímésí / Cookery

2011 April 20, Vladimir Ivir, Damir Kalogjera, Languages in Contact and Contrast: Essays in Contact Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 135:
... interfix -o-, because 1) the thematic vowel -o is indistinguishible from a conceivable interfix, 2) because there is concord in alta-cassa 'an instrument in typography', 3) because adjectives in -e always take the interfix […]
1999, E. F. K. Koerner, Sheila M. Embleton, John Earl Joseph, Hans-Josef Niederehe, The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Methodological perspectives and applications, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 195:
... interfix + suffix sequence as a single, unanalyzable, suffix (so that Spanish humareda might comprise hum- + suffix -areda, rather than hum- + interfix ar + suffix -eda) is rejected because the result would greatly expand the […]