Rara #113

Legacy number: 113

 Number  113
 Phenomenon  infix positioned after the second syllable of the stem
 Found in  Dakota (Siouan) (?)
 Domain  phonology, morphology — types of exponents and their uses
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  infix
 Source  Moravcsik, Edith A. (1977). On Rules of Infixing. Bloomington: Indiana Univerrsity Linguistics Club, p. 154.
Moravcsik, Edith A. (2000). Infixes. In Geert Booij et al. (eds.), Morphology: An International Handbook on Inflection and Word-Formation, vol. 1: 545-552. Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 547.
 Violates  none

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Discussion
Notes
Moravcsik suggests that such an analysis of Dakota is erroneous: the putative infixes are really interfixes.
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
Moravcsik suggests that such an analysis of Dakota is erroneous: the putative infixes are really interfixes.