[...] nonhuman animals may have the capacity to learn surface transformations involved in affixation, but they cannot link them to other aspects of linguistic structure. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In fact, this method (zero-affixation) of forming nouns from verbs used to be quite commonplace. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If affixation means forming a word by adding an affix (e.g. frosty from frost, refusal from refuse, instrumentation from instrument), then back-formation is essentially this process in reverse: it adapts an existing word by removing its affix, usually a suffix (e.g. sulk from sulky, proliferate from proliferation, back-form from back-formation). ❋ Unknown (2009)
In summary, their “results suggest that, in the absence of training, cotton-top tamarins learn a rule that is formally similar to affixation patterns [...] in natural language.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
When I wrote that back-formation was “essentially [affixation] in reverse”, I was simplifying matters somewhat. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Maybe the governance had passed away from affixation from her obsession with gasoline. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Well Westmoreland is 58, not 28, and for about the first 20 years of his life in Georgia, and in the states you and I live in, a politician's affixation of the word "uppity" to a black man was to the Ku Klux Klan as a Green Beret's shining a laser designator on a building is to a smart bomb. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Thanks for this very helpful analysis -- I like your example, too, which illustrates exactly why affixation is the important time for analysis of the manufacturer's liability. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2006)
One, it's just not natural to develop an affixation on people who you really don't know personally. ❋ Partygirl (2000)
The following locations and methods of affixation are examples of appropriate position of notice. ❋ Library Of Congress. Copyright Office (N/A)
The Register of Copyrights shall prescribe by regulation, as examples, specific methods of affixation and positions of the notice on various types of works that will satisfy this requirement, but these specifications shall not be considered exhaustive. ❋ United States (N/A)
The affixation of such notice is not a condition of protection under this chapter, but shall constitute prima facie evidence of notice of protection. ❋ United States (N/A)
The Register of Copyrights shall prescribe by regulation, as examples, specific methods of affixation and positions of notice for purposes of this section, but these specifications shall not be considered exhaustive. ❋ United States (N/A)
We have reserved the very curious type of affixation known as infixing for separate illustration. ❋ Unknown (1921)
They may be grouped into six main types: word order; composition; affixation, including the use of prefixes, suffixes, and infixes; internal modification of the radical or grammatical element, whether this affects a vowel or a consonant; reduplication; and accentual differences, whether dynamic (stress) or tonal (pitch). ❋ Unknown (1921)
1.(Me)Me and pudge were [arenaing] with a mage today and he was pretty gay and bad.
(Pudge)lol that sucks man im surprised it wasnt [affix].
(Me) Me too he was pretty affix like every attribute about that [noob lol] @ transfers.
(Me) as we were playing with that baddy we played agaisnt isolees team and we lost but god hes so bad also.
(Pudge) yeah hes terrible.
2. Man that guy is really affix. ❋ Best Rogue On Tich (2007)
Dude 1: "why so [glum]?"
Dude 2: "[Affixation remorse]"
Dude 1: "What?"
Dude 2: I stuck that sweet vintage Apple sticker on my old PS2 Guitar Hero Guitar. I never even play that game any more. I should have put it on the [rear window] of my truck"
Dude 1: "what a waste" ❋ Grimfish (2009)
Person 1: hey [affix]
Person 2: like affixing something on a paper?
Person 1: [it's your] [roleplay] name, dumbass ❋ Affixiation (2021)
