Download or read book A Natural History of Infixation written by Alan C. L. Yu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first cross-linguistic study of infixation explores its prosodic, phonological, and morphological characteristics, considers its diverse functions, and formulates a general theory to explain the rules and constraints by which it is governed. It examines 154 infixation patterns from over a hundred languages, compares their formal properties and explores their diachronic origins. The book will interest phonologists, morphologists, typologists, and historical linguists of all theoretical persuasions.