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Thus we could say that English has a process of infixation of (certain) words, but there are no
bound morphemes that qualify for infix status. Such forms raise two questions. The first is what structural properties these infixed
derivatives have, and the second is whether we should consider this type of infixation as part of English word-formation component or
not. From a phonological point of view these forms are completely regular. From a semantic point of view, one could
perhaps argue that expletive infixation does not create a new lexeme because the core meaning of the base word is not affected.
However, the derived word tells us something about the speaker’s attitude, which is a newmeaning. Treating expletive infixation as
regular wordformation is also in wline with the idea…that diminutives (like doggy) and augmentatives (like super-cool) are instances of
wordformation.
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