infixing

I presume that the reason for this infixing is not because the schwa was an actual animatizing morpheme but rather by analogy with the fact that most animate stems happened to be thematic (i.e. stems ending in a schwa) while inanimate stems tended to be athematic (i.e. stems ending in a consonant).

Oops, I forgot about Thematicization 2008

I find this rather odd, but there's some interesting *s-infixing in some verbs that I'd like to discuss.

A list of possible Proto-Semitic loanwords in PIE 2008

It seems that, in all the immense details that I've deduced over the years on Pre-IE, I forgot about Thematicization which is what I call the point at which productive animate suffixes were derived from their inanimate counterparts by infixing a vowel schwa during the middle of the Late IE Period.

Oops, I forgot about Thematicization 2008

You shade the meaning of ‘another’ by splitting it apart and infixing ‘whole’.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Most Commonly Misspelled Phrases: 2007

Interestingly, it is left to the proletariat to devise the ingeniuous syntax of infixing as a counter-weight to elitist tendencies below, emphasis added:

MMO Language as a Power-up 2004

We have reserved the very curious type of affixation known as “infixing” for separate illustration.

Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes 1921

” Obviously the infixing process has in this (and related) languages the same vitality that is possessed by the commoner prefixes and suffixes of other languages.

Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes 1921

This is noted in the case of liars; who by the frequent repetition of their lies, come at last to believe and remember them, as realities; custom and habit having in this case, as in many others, the same influence on the mind as nature, and infixing the idea with equal force and vigour.

A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743

This is noted in the case of liars; who by the frequent repetition of their lies, come at last to believe and remember them, as realities; custom and habit having in this case, as in many others, the same influence on the mind as nature, and infixing the idea with equal force and vigour.

A treatise of human nature 1739

This is noted in the case of liars; who by the frequent repetition of their lies, come at last to believe and remember them, as realities; custom and habit having in this case, as in many others, the same influence on the mind as nature, and infixing the idea with equal force and vigour.

A Treatise of Human Nature 1739