Language is embiggened by words that don’t exist: the case of a circumfix
The paper deals with parasynthetic formations combining the prefix en- and the suffix -en, which are sometimes regarded as an example of a circumfix in English. The aim is to find more instances of this pattern than the usual three or four mentioned in the literature (enlighten, embolden, enliven,...
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Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta
2018-08-01
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| Series: | Linguistica Pragensia |
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| Online Access: | https://linguisticapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Ales_Klegr_53-70.pdf |