Rare, obscure and marginal affixes in English

English is full of words with recurrent sequences of segments which may or may not be morphologically interpretable. In this paper I look at some which fall on either side the cut-off point between morphology and non-morphology, considering what it is that makes something an affix and how we might d...

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Main Author: Laurie Bauer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2014-01-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/304