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suffixation

NOUN
  1. formation of a word by means of a suffix

How To Use suffixation In A Sentence

  • Let's try to curb our clever suffixations of the cosmopolitan ‘y.’
  • This family has been widely publicised as suffering primarily from a defect in the use of grammatical suffixation rules, thus supposedly supporting the existence of genes specific to grammar.
  • As noted in the box, the suffixation of -ence to verbs terminating in -fer occasions a change in stress location (prefér:préference).
  • Obviously there is great variation in how useful, innovative, illogical, lazy, funny, awkward, redundant, etc. these coinages are, but the underlying act (word formation through - y suffixation) has a long and illustrious history. Link love: language (4)
  • I wouldn’t call - y suffixation gaga, but it has become very faddish. Link love: language (4)
  • The perfective aspect is usually formed from the imperfective either by prefixation or by suffixation.
  • This latest group is merely a rebranding (or further classification) of people devoted to the sole purpose of defeating that guy who rightfully won a Democratic presidential election; a loose confederacy of street level strategists who are experts in the fields of clotheslining, kneecapping, smokescreening and all-out denying (also earning the honorary suffixation "ingers"). Steven Weber: To Er Is Human
  • I find this a nice counter-example to any claim that English suffixation is obligatorily logical. 2010 February « Motivated Grammar
  • And what about the Umbrian suffixation is non-Indo-European anyway? Is Etruscan ais 'deity' an Indo-European loanword?
  • The use of pseudowords in addition to real words allowed us to assess suffixation without support of lexical knowledge.
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