suffixlessness

Noun

suffixlessness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being suffixless.
   • The strict rule of the genitive anticipation in the Altaic languages originated on the basis of the suffixlessness of the genitive.1978, Karl H. Menges, “Problems of Tungus Linguistics”, in Anthropos, volume 73, number 3/4, St. Augustin: Anthropos Institute, →JSTOR, page 381
   • Subtle circumstantial evidence in favor of the short impf having had suffixal encodation of some sort might be the fact that the later dialects consistently show bridges in the impf—unlike the impa, whose assumed original suffixlessness arguably resonates in a certain amount of later bridgelessness...2019, Joseph L. Malone, “System of Verb Affixes” (chapter 2), in The Morphophonological Development of the Classical Aramaic Verb (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic; 13), University Park...