postformative

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Etymology

From post- (prefix meaning ‘after’) +‎ formative, modelled after preformative.

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Noun

postformative (plural postformatives)

  1. (chiefly in Afroasiatic words) A formative element at the end.

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Adjective

postformative (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly in Afroasiatic words) Forming or affecting something that comes before.
    • 1981, Otto Rössler, “The Structure and Inflexion of the Verb in the Semito-Hamitic Languages: Preliminary Studies for a Comparative Semito-Hamitic Grammar”, in Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns, Amsterdam · Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 748:
      The phenomenon of Berber verbs which are marked for person with both a preformative and a postformative affix finds a formally exact pendant in Canaanite, where there is one occurrence of the phenomenon in the Bible (Is 63:3 ), but c. 20 occurrences in the Amarna tablets.
  2. Occurring after the formation (chiefly written post-formative, said in Islamic studies of the period following the Golden Age of Islam 786–861 CE).
    • 2021, Thomas Bauer, translated by Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall, A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 259, occurring twenty times in this book:
      It seems that Western observers of the Near East—and, in addition, a large percentage of the intellectuals of the Islamic world—can hardly imagine a society in which a struggle for truth does not continuously rage. But such a society seems to have been the case in large parts of the Islamic world of the postformative era.

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