Problems of circumfixation

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Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2018. Volume 3. No. 3. pp. 290-294.

Authors

Gataullin R. G.*
Bashkir State University
32 Zaki Validi Street, 450074 Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

Abstract

Circumfixation (also combination (kombinatorische) derivation) is analyzed as the form of creating words by adding both prefix and suffix to the initial morpheme. In the process of circumfixation the basic morpheme “expands with an affix at the beginning and at the end simultaneously”, with this both affixes always appear together. Circumfixation is considered to be one of the most basic types of derivation as well as suffixation and prefixation.

Keywords

  • derivation
  • circumfix
  • circumfixation
  • discrete affix
  • suffix
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