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affixation

affixation
Danh từ

This term is a technical linguistic descriptor used primarily in academic, philological, or pedagogical contexts. It describes the structural mechanism of word formation, encompassing both prefixation and suffixation. Because it refers to a systemic process within a language, it is rarely used in casual conversation and is instead found in textbooks, research papers, and grammatical analyses.

As an uncountable noun referring to a general linguistic process, it does not typically take a plural form. When referring to specific instances of the process, linguists generally use phrases like "an instance of affixation" or "the use of affixation" rather than pluralizing the word itself.

Ý nghĩa

Danh từaffixation

The process of adding an affix to a word or root to create a new word or a different form of a word.

The study of English morphology focuses heavily on affixation to explain how adjectives are derived from nouns.

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