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Everything about Suffix
Morpheme placed at the end of a word
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem and the prefix of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SuffixA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Reconstruction of Sets of Strings From Prefix/Suffix CompositionsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: English words with native roots and with Greek, Latin, or Romance suffixes ..The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: An algorithm for suffix strippingCited 4,604 times
- Go sideways: InflectionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Old Norse morphologyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
Noun A subscript.
Noun A final segment of a string of characters.
Verb To append (something) to the end of something else.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
An algorithm for suffix stripping
Suffix Arrays: A New Method for On-Line String Searches
A Space-Economical Suffix Tree Construction Algorithm
On-line construction of suffix trees
Replacing suffix trees with enhanced suffix arrays
Linear work suffix array construction
Compressed Suffix Arrays and Suffix Trees with Applications to Text Indexing and String Matching
A taxonomy of suffix array construction algorithms
🆕 Influential since 2022
Reconstruction of Sets of Strings From Prefix/Suffix Compositions
SGD-rα: A real-time α-suffix averaging method for SGD with biased gradient estimates
Ist Gendern mit Glottisverschlusslaut ungrammatisch? Ein Analysevorschlag für das Suffix [?in] als phonologisches Wort
Optimal in-place suffix sorting
New methods for analysing diachronic suffix competition across registers
📚 Books worth reading
English words with native roots and with Greek, Latin, or Romance suffixes ..George Albert Nicholson · 1916
A Manual of German Prefixes and SuffixesJames Shannon Blackwell · 1888- 📕English SuffixesIves Trevian · 2015
Diminutive, augmentative, and pejorative suffixes in modern SpanishAnthony Gooch · 1967- 📕Nullsuffix und Nullsuffigierung im RussischenRenate Menge-Verbeeck · 1973
Greek diminutives in -IONWalter Petersen · 1910
Ologies and IsmsMichael Quinion · 2002
A Vocabulary WorkbookAnne Farid · 1985
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