Everything about Affix
Morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word
In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The two main categories are derivational and inflectional affixes. Derivational affixes, such as un-, -ation, anti-, and pre-, introduce a semantic change to the word they are attached to. Inflectional affixes introduce a syntactic change, such as singular into plural, or present simple tense into present continuous or past tense by adding -ing or -ed to an English word. All of them are bound morphemes by definition; prefixes and suffixes may be separable affixes. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: AffixA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Affix rivalry: Theoretical and methodological challengesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The syntax of verbal affixationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: From Speech Perception to Morphology: Affix Ordering RevisitedCited 83 times
- Go sideways: Morphological derivationA closely related topic
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📖 Definitions
Noun A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix.
Noun That which is affixed; an appendage.
Noun The complex number a+bi associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates (a,b).
Noun Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
From Speech Perception to Morphology: Affix Ordering Revisited
Morphological Priming: The Role of Prime Duration, Semantic Transparency, and Affix Position
Strength and similarity of affix removal stemming algorithms
An affix acquisition order for EFL learners: an exploratory study
BARE PLURALS AND THE NUMBER AFFIX IN DP
Hermit Crabs: Formal Renewal of Morphology by Phonologically Mediated Affix Substitution
Affix grammar driven code generation
A (phrasal) affix analysis of the Persian Ezafe
🆕 Influential since 2022
Affix rivalry: Theoretical and methodological challenges
Affix polyfunctionality in French deverbal nominalizations
Low-Resource POS Tagging With Deep Affix Representation and Multi-Head Attention
The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok
Effects of Affix Type and Base Word Transparency on Students' Performance on Different Morphological Awareness Measures
📚 Books worth reading
The syntax of verbal affixationFrank Drijkoningen · 1989
Russian root listCharles E. Gribble · 1973- 📕Kugŏ ŭi 'tʻae' yŏnʼguMyŏng-sun Kang · 2007
- 📕Russian verbal prefixation and semantic featuresJames Gallant · 1979
- 📕A practical guide to a right understanding of the prefixes and affixes in the English languageR. C. Geggie · 1841
- 📕Sli︠e︡dy korneĭ-osnov v slavi︠a︡nskikh i︠a︡zykakhA. L. Pogodin · 1903
Russian root list with a sketch of word formationCharles E. Gribble · 1981
Verb morphology in Eastern KadazanHope M. Hurlbut · 1988
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