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Multiple Affixation &

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Multiple Affixation
The process of reattaching the same morpheme again and again, which is permitted, but unusual. Multiple affixation of different affixes is accepted. re-re-re-make ! E.g. dict-

Contradictoriness
Discontinuousness

Unacceptability Pre-anti-denationalization

Exercise
word unsinkable Inflectional affix Derivational affix root Stem base

denationalize discontinuousness
deactivation prettiest insufferable brand-named fertilizers modernization marginalized multicolored independently

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