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English
Etymology
non- + affix
Noun
nonaffix (plural nonaffixes)
- (linguistics) A morpheme that is not an affix.
1960, Alfred Louis Kroeber, George William Grace, The Sparkman Grammar of Luiseño, University of California Press, page 57:Where no ambiguity has resulted, the terms (i.e., "verb," "nonverb," "noun," "adjective," etc.) applied to these classes have been used to refer to forms consisting of anything from a stem (single, nonaffix morpheme) to a sequence of several morphemes, whether or not the form in question constituted a word.
1975, Charles Read, Children’s Categorization of Speech Sounds in English, National Council of Teachers of English, →ISBN, page 34, →ISBN:In the extension of the affix Y to nonaffixes, the invented spelling is clearly more “phonetic” than standard spelling; it does not maintain the morphophonemic distinctions that are important in adult spelling.
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “linguistics: a morpheme that is not an affix”): affix