circumfixation

English

Etymology

From circum- +‎ fixation.

Pronunciation

Noun

circumfixation (usually uncountable, plural circumfixations)

  1. The morphological phenomenon of circumfixing.
    • 1999 November 19, Markus Walther, “Alternative method: Lexical transducer plus intelligent copy module”, in One-Level Prosodic Morphology (Marburger Arbeiten zur Linguistik [Marburg Studies in Linguistics]; 1), Marburg: Institut fur Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg [Institute for German Linguistics, Marburg University], →OCLC, page 57:
      As we have just seen, the encoding is quite versatile. In fact, it is not even limited to describing reduplicative patterns alone but can also handle infixations, circumfixations and truncations.

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