ˈpostbase Linguistics.
[f. post- B. 1 c + base n.1]
A derivational suffix.
| 1958 A. A. Hill Introd. Linguistic Struct. viii. 121 The other class of morphemes which can follow a base, we shall call postbases... Postbases, like suffixes, are non-initial. Since more than one postbase can be added to a single base, as in boy-ish-ness, a postbase must be described as a morpheme which can follow a base or another postbase. 1962 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics VII. ii. 94 This study shows that the morphophonemics of English words having post-bases (‘derivational suffixes’) of learned origin can be systematized by a comparatively small number of statements of wide application. 1967 Ibid. XIII. i. 22 OE adverbs also fall into subsets marked by comparative and superlative postbases. |