Re: THEORY: Evolution of infixes/ablaut?

Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Anyway, I don't know. It just seems to me like a morpheme would be
> fundamental and atomic, even though obviously the converse has been
> demonstrated.
It usually is - infixes are pretty rare.  In fact, I think that the
expletive-infixation is caused by the secondary stressings "absolutely"
sounds like two words to many people "abso lutely".  Besides, bound
morphemes usually evolve from free words, so it seems odd that a word
should be stuck inside another word.  But, then again, there are at
least a few cases of affixes moving around in a word.

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