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An inflectional suffix (such as the addition of -s to a noun to form a plural) tells something about the word's
grammatical behavior.
-able, -al, -ness, -ist, -dom
21. Infixes – An infix is an affix that is inserted inside its base.
A word element (a type of affix) that can be inserted within the base form of a word (rather than at its beginning or
end) to create a new word or intensify meaning. The process of inserting an infix is called infixation. Examples: abso-
bleedin-lutely
“According to an approach developed in Optimality Theory, infixation is often if not always a phonological rather than a morphological
phenomenon. That is, an infix is an affix that is inserted close to, rather than at one end of its base so as to promote observance of
phonological well-formedness constraints”. Morphologists usually agree that English has no infixes. However, there is the possibility of
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