infixation

English

Etymology

From infix +‎ -ation.

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Noun

infixation (usually uncountable, plural infixations)

  1. (linguistic morphology) Word formation involving an infix or infixes; adding an infix to a word.
    • 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.
  2. (grammar) The state or quality of being infixed.

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