Postformative

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Finnish

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  • postformatiivinen adj (attached to the end of a word as a formative element)

German

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  • postformativ adj (attached to the end of a word as a formative element)
  • Postformativ noun (formative at the end)

Italian

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  • postformativo adj (attached to the end of a word as a formative element)

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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 [אגאלתי]), but c. 20 occurrences in the Amarna tablets.

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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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