Suffixns
Suffixns is a fictional or exploratory concept in linguistics and language technology that refers to a structured catalog of suffixes organized by semantic namespaces. The term combines suffix with namespaces, borrowing the idea of named categories from programming to help describe how suffixal markers convey information and interact with stems. Suffixns is used primarily in didactic contexts and in experimental analyses to illustrate systematic organization of suffixal morphology.
In the suffixns framework, each suffix is associated with a namespace that signals its function or domain,
Usage and implications: The suffixns approach is mainly a methodological tool for teaching, corpus annotation, and
Examples can be constructed in toy data by appending bracketed suffixns to bases to indicate their namespace,
See also: suffix, morphology, linguistic annotation, namespaces in programming.