Ambifix

Examples of such other methods are intercalation, as in Semitic, and what might be called ambifixing, where an affix has two parts, one of which precedes the entire root, while the other follows.

These markers are suffixed, prefixed, infixed and even at times ambifixed.

As mentioned above, all verbs distinguish dual from non-dual forms; for ambifixing verbs this is encoded on a post-root ‘thematic’ which combines information about dual vs. non-dual and TAM[…]