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Lexical affixes

Semantically, lexical or semantic affixes often convey more general or abstract meanings than their corresponding free nouns. For instance, an affix meaning "water" in a broad sense may lack a direct noun equivalent, since available nouns typically refer to more specific types such as "saltwater" or "whitewater." (while in other cases the lexical suffixes have become grammaticalized to various degrees.) Although they behave as

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