Definition
Examples
(Phillipines - Tagalog)
- The focus marker -um- is a infix which is added after the first consonant of the root.
- bili: root ‘buy’
- -um-: infix ‘AGT’
- bumili: word ‘bought’
(Chickasaw)
- In verb roots, a glottal stop is inserted to form a negative.
(English)
- bloomin of abso-bloomin-lutely
Sources 3
- Crystal 1980, 184
- Hartmann and Stork 1972, 111
- Anderson, S. 1985, 166