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Office, E.E. Affixation. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/60067 (accessed on 12 November 2026).
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Affixation

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Affixation is a morphological process in which a bound morpheme—an affix—is attached to a base, stem, or word to form a new lexeme or a grammatical word form [1]. Depending on its position relative to the base, an affix may be a prefix, suffix, infix, circumfix, or another language-specific type; its attachment may encode derivational meanings or categories, such as changes in lexical category or meaning, or inflectional grammatical information, such as number, tense, case, or agreement [1][2]. Affixation is distinguished from compounding, which combines two or more lexical bases, and from conversion, which changes a word’s grammatical function without overt morphological marking; its defining property is the addition of a non-independent morphological element to a host [2].

morphology bound morpheme derivation inflection
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  1. Haspelmath, M., & Sims, A. (2013). Understanding morphology. Routledge. https://arkitecturadellenguaje.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/understanding-morphology-second-edition.pdf
  2. Pius Ten Hacken; Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber & Ingo Plag The Oxford reference guide to English morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 704. ISBN 978-0-19-957926-6.. Engl. Lang. Linguistics 2014, 19, 188-201. [CrossRef]
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