infixation , auch: infixion

Infixation: the insertion of a morpheme within a word.

Simple infixation is when the infix is inserted into the root.

It may be that computer programmers influenced capital infixation; the main influence is mergermania.

Linguists sometimes describe tmesis as a form of infixation.

Vowel alternances are active, as well as infixation and suppletion.

Tmesis, the use of a lexical word rather than an affix, is sometimes considered a type of infixation.

Common adjectives of measurement, however, have a plural form characterized by the infixation of /g/.

"Abso-bloody-exactly", a humorous misuse of infixation by fictional character Alan Partridge.

VI: Stem modification - reduplication or prefixation and infixation of chi/ku "again"

Reduplication and affixation, including some processes (such as the irrealis marker (k)a) that resemble infixation, are also common.

The variable word type may be affected by many morphological processes, such as prefixation, suffixation, infixation, reduplication, and glottalization.

Expletive infixation is a process by which an expletive or profanity is inserted into a word, usually for intensification.

CVC reduplication and infixation in Lillooet.

In verb inflection, infixation, consonant mutation, and apocope are prominent processes, and the number of irregular verbs is large.

In English, an expletive attributive can be infixed (inserted within another word, for "un-bloody-believable", etc.); see expletive infixation.

All Aslian languages that have been thoroughly studied have constructive usage of various morphophonemic devices - prefixation, infixation and reduplication.

Infixation occurs with some stative verbs derived from classifiers, for instance the classifier 7id plus the stative suffix -(aa)gaa becomes 7yaadgaa.

A more complicated example comes from Chickasaw where the positive/negative distinction in verbs displays vowel ablaut along with prefixation (ak-) and infixation (-'-):

"Reduplicative Infixation in Secret Languages" [L'Infixation reduplicative dans les langages secrets].

Like other Muskogean languages, Koasati has verb grades, or an ablaut system in which morphological and phonemic changes (in this case infixation and nasalization) can be used to alter the meaning of verb.

In Seri some verbs form the plural stem with infixation of tóo after the first vowel of the root; compare the singular stem ic 'plant (verb)' with the plural stem itóoc.

The Semitic languages have a form of ablaut (changing the vowels within words, as in English sing, sang, sung, song) that is sometimes called infixation, as the vowels are placed between the consonants of the root.