A disfix is a subtractive morpheme, that is, a morpheme which manifests itself through elision the removal of segment linguistics segment s from a root word root or stem linguistics stem . Thus it can be seen as a kind of anti affix . An example comes from Murle , an Eastern Sudanic language of southern Sudan, where the final consonant of a word may be removed to form the plural IPA o i t rib IPA o i ribs . Disfixation is uncommon, but is important in the Muskogean languages of the southeastern United States. Disfixes in Muskogean In Muskogean, disfixes are used to derive pluractional ity repeated action, plural subjects or objects, or greater duration of a verb . In Alabama language Alabama , there are two principal forms of this morpheme In most verbs, the last two segments are dropped from the wikt penultimate penultimate syllable of the Word stem stem , which is the final syllable of the root. If the syllable has only two segments, it is elided altogether. For example bal aa ka lies down , balka lie down bat at li hits , batli hits repeatedly cokka li ka enters , cokkaka enter In some verbs, the final consonant of the penult is dropped, but the preceding vowel lengthens to compensate sala t li slide , sala a li slide repeatedly nokti i f ka choke , nokti i i ka choke repeatedly In French For a more familiar language, a somewhat similar process occurs in French. Though not productive like Muscogean and therefore perhaps not true disfixation, ref Speakers of French may learn these words by rote as suppletion suppletive pairs, rather than deriving one from the other morphologically. Without active morphology, there is arguably no affix involved. Booij, Lehmann, & Mugdan, Morphology , Walter de Gruyter, 2000, p 582 ref some French plurals are derived from the singular, and many masculines words from the feminine, by dropping the final consonant and making some generally ... American Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3110111659 Category Affixes ar nl Disfix ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 In linguistics , a simulfix is a type of affix that changes one or more existing phoneme s in order to modify the meaning of a morpheme . Examples of simulfixes in English are generally considered irregularities, all of which left over from pluralization rules that existed before the Great Vowel Shift . They include man men , woman women louse lice , mouse mice foot feet , tooth teeth The transfix es of the Semitic languages may be considered a form of discontinuous simulfix. See also Affix Circumfix Duplifix Infix Interfix Prefix Suffix Suprafix Transfix Disfix Apophony Category Affixes Ling morph stub ar br Keitger ko nl Simulfix ... more details
, deletion , or subtraction the morpheme is sometimes called a disfix . This process removes phonological ... plural . See also Autosegmental phonology Apophony Transfix Disfix References reflist DEFAULTSORT ... more details
of a stem Disfix Alabama language Alabama tipli break up br compare root tip font color d30000 as font li break st font color d30000 disfix font m The elision of a portion of a stem Prefix and suffix ... more details
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