| 释义 |
suffixoid, n. Gram.|ˈsʌfɪksɔɪd|
[ad. It. suffissoido (cf. B. Migliorini 1935, Saggi sulla Lingua del Novecento (1963) iv. 160): see suffix n., -oid, and prefixoid n.]
A word-final element which has the same form as a suffix (and with which it may seem to share other features), but which cannot be analysed as one morphologically.
1966Y. Malkiel in T. A. Sebeok Current Trends in Linguistics III. 323 Recourse will be had to the term suffixoid to designate word-final sound sequences resembling genuine suffixes without qualifying for that rank, ie. reminiscent of badger, hammer. 1968Language XLIV. 579 There are cogent observations about the role of ‘suffixoids’ such as the -er of hammer as selectional factors favoring the development of homophonous derivational affixes. 1973V. Adams Introd. Mod. Eng. Word-Formation xiii. 173 The ending of this word [= shyster] is a ‘suffixoid’ rather than a real suffix. 1975Language LI. 969 In addition to straight suffixes, he might have mentioned characteristic final word-segments (suffixoids = the ‘primary suffixes’ of L. Bloomfield 1933 and the Sanskrit grammarians). |