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Affix

In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The two main categories are derivational and inflectional affixes. Derivational affixes, such as un-, -ation, anti-, and pre-, introduce a semantic change to the word they are attached to. Inflectional affixes introduce a syntactic change, such as…

Lexical affixes, Orthographic affixes & Affixes, infixes and their variations

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Lexical affixes

GrammaticalizedIncorporated nounNounsWakashanSalishan
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Orthographic affixes

OrthographyMaya glyphsIndic alphabetsTibetan alphabet
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Affixes, infixes and their variations

Interlinear glossing
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Overview

LinguisticsMorphemeWord stemDerivationalInflectional
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Affixes, infixes and their variations

Lexical affixes

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Affix

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples47
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

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related to Lexical affixes · 17
Affix → Although, Americanist, Chimakuan, Compare, For, Gerdts, Halkomelem, Lexical, North America, Northern Straits Saanich, Other, Pacific Northwest, Saanich, Salishan, Semantically, Some, Wakashan
see also · 16
Affix → Agglutination, Compound, Creation, English, Forming, Free, GreekConcatenation, Internet-denoting, Joining, Latin, Linguistic, Order, Prefix, Process, Verb, Word
related to Orthographic affixes · 7
Affix → For, In, Indic, Maya, Similar, These, Tibetan
related to External links · 4
Affix → Affixes, Media, Wikimedia CommonsComprehensive, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
is a · 1
Affix → morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form

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affixes lexical word suffixes nouns free linguistics may inflectional prefixes derivational morpheme suffix sentence baby stem main attached introduce change

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Affixis amorpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form0.90text
prefixesinstance ofsimple affixes0.80text
suffixes are separated from the stem with hyphensinstance ofsimple affixes0.80text
Affixrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
Affixrelated to External linksMedia0.60section
Affixrelated to External linksAffixes0.60section
Affixrelated to External linksWikimedia CommonsComprehensive0.60section
Affixrelated to Lexical affixesSemantically0.60section
Affixrelated to Lexical affixesFor0.60section
Affixrelated to Lexical affixesAlthough0.60section
Affixrelated to Lexical affixesLexical0.60section
Affixrelated to Lexical affixesWakashan0.60section

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