prefigationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

prefigation (plural prefigations)

1. (linguistics, rare) Synonym of prefixation.

   Antonym: suffigation

   • 1974, JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology:

     Despite this, however, the OHG Benedictine Rule can be used to illustrate Streitberg's definition of perfective aspect in Germanic by means of prefigation […]

   • 1990, Papers from the Institute of Linguistics, University of Stockholm:

     A common structure of Swedish verbs is to have a stem with fairly broad meaning and a set of prefigated forms with a narrower, lexicalized meaning. This prefigation of verbs is productive only to a very small extent, […]

   • 1999, Werner Abraham, Leonid Kulikov, Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity: Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 265:

     For such perfectivization by means of lexical prefigation, see the productive prefixal paradigms in Modern Russian, […]