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The main two categories are derivational and inflectional affixes. Derivational affixes, such as un-, -ation, anti-, pre- etc., introduce a semantic

Family name affixes are a clue for surname etymology and can sometimes determine the ethnic origin of a person. This is a partial list of affixes. Abu – (Arabic)

animate object." Noun affixes are affixes that form nouns upon addition to root words. The following are examples of noun affixes: The prefix per- drops

its possessor, much in the manner of possessive adjectives. Possessive affixes are found in many languages of the world. The World Atlas of Language Structures

Fossilized affixes abound in Austronesian languages. Li and Tsuchida (2009) lists various fossilized reflexes of Proto-Austronesian infixes *-al-, *-aR-

An Affixing Machine is a machine that affixes postage stamps to an envelope, postcard or wrapper. Affixing machines first appeared in the 1850s but were

This is a list of common affixes used when scientifically naming species, particularly extinct species for whom only their scientific names are used,

is pronounced like an affix, but plays a syntactic role at the phrase level. In other words, clitics have the form of affixes, but the distribution of

Applied in this way, affixes increase compactness of grammars, but do not add expressive power. Another approach is to allow affixes to take arbitrary strings

forms and do not take possessive affixes, while nouns do not have progressive forms and do take possessive affixes. Adjectives have neither progressive