[...] English has taken over a certain number of morphological elements from French. English also uses a number of affixes that are derived from Latin and Greek. Some of these foreign elements [...] are even productive to-day. - Sapir (1921), a pag.202 [...] words may be diffused no less freely than cultural elements, [...] sounds also may be 'borrowed,' and that even morphological elements may be taken over. - Sapir (1921), a pag.205
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