suffixlessness en · NOUN
Etymology
From suffixless + -ness.
Meanings
-
(uncountable) The quality of being suffixless.
The strict rule of the genitive anticipation in the Altaic languages originated on the basis of the suffixlessness of the genitive.
1978, Karl H. Menges, “Problems of Tungus Linguistics”, in Anthropos, volume 73, number 3/4, St. Augustin: Anthropos Institute, →JSTOR, page 381:Subtle circumstantial evidence in favor of the short impf having had suffixal encodation of some sort might be the fact that the later dialects consistently show bridges in the impf—unlike the impa, whose assumed original suffixlessness arguably resonates in a certain amount of later bridgelessness (especially in TR); see §2.3.4.1.
2019, Joseph L. Malone, “System of Verb Affixes” (chapter 2), in The Morphophonological Development of the Classical Aramaic Verb (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic; 13), University Park: Penn State University Press, →DOI, →ISBN:In view of the fact that Bemerkungen was the intended item, the error word Bemerke may be interpreted as involving the deletion of the nominalizing suffix -ung. This loss may be understood as an interference of the suffixlessness of Vermerk ‘note’.
2020, Thomas Berg, “Morphological slips of the tongue”, in Vito Pirrelli, Ingo Plag, Wolfgang U. Dressler, editors, Word Knowledge and Word Usage: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to the Mental Lexicon (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 337), Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 655: