Abso-b████y-lutely: Expletive Infixation
发布时间 2020-04-13 15:00:15 来源
摘要
There are rules in the English language that you've probably never been taught, but you know anyway: how to split apart words with "infixes". But you've never been taught it because some of those infixes are words you probably shouldn't use in front of your high school English teachers...
Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast Lingthusiasm is at http://lingthusiasm.com/ - and there are two bonus episodes, #1 and #13, on the podcast Patreon about exactly this!
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McMillan, J. (1980). Infixing and Interposing in English. American Speech, 55(3), 163-183
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