0 a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word to make a new word: --
In the word "unimportant", "un-" is a prefix.
1 a dialling code UK --
2 a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning or make a new word: --
A comparison of the frequency of the words with productive and those with unproductive prefixes reveals a clear difference.
There are almost three times as many words with productive prefixes as with unproductive ones.
Note, though, that these verbs can take the nasal prefix when the applicative/causative suffix -ke is present.
This argument concerns derivational morphology, which is sometimes realised as a prefix or suffix.
A reasonable interpretation of an indicative conditional prefixed by a ' % ' is as stating an entailment.
These suffixes are also used alone and with prefixes in other morphological constructions.
Each method provides a toolkit for constructing parsers for expressions involving at least infix binary and prefix unary operators.
Moreover, items with unproductive prefixes gravitate more strongly towards left-branching than items with productive prefixes.
