duplifix
English edit
Etymology edit
From dupli(cate) + -fix.
Noun edit
duplifix (plural duplifixes)
- (linguistics) An affix which, when applied, incorporates some of the stem word it is modifying.
- 2017, Judith Aissen, Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado, The Mayan Languages:
- Note that reduplication of the root vowel in a duplifix can also be viewed as vowel harmony, see §2.3.
- 2018, Aina Urdze, Non-Prototypical Reduplication:
- The initial C- of this duplifix copies the initial consonant of the lexical morpheme which happens to be /p/ so that the plural marker takes the shape puru-
- 2018, Rita Finkbeiner, Ulrike Freywald, Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse:
- According to Haspelmath and Sims (2010: 39) the Bikol case could be considered to be a duplifix.
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- An affix that works by duplicating part of the stem word.
- 2013, Edith A. Moravcsik, Introducing Language Typology, page 128:
- First, here are examples to show variation in the phonological make-up of duplifixes. C, CV, CVC, and CVCV are all possible duplifix skeleta.
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