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1373Prefix  

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  • A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Adding it to the beginning of one word changes it into another word. For example, when the prefix un- is added to the word happy, it creates the word unhappy. Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative, because it alters the form of the words to which it is affixed. Prefixes, like other affixes, can be either inflectional, changing the syntactic category, or derivational, changing either the lexical category or the semantic meaning.

SOURCE

  • Booij 2007
  • Carstairs-McCarthy 1992
  • Matthews 1974
  • Ράλλη 2005

CONTRIBUTOR

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

CREATOR

  • Karasimos Athanasios (AA)

NOTATION

  • 1373

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