Hence his term "parasitic" for a foration of this sort, where one item is built on another solely in terms of their sound forms and not in terms of their meaning or syntax.
- Aronoff (2004), a pag.51

Matthews devotes a great deal of attention to what he calls "Priscianic" or "parasitic formation", in which one member of a paradigm seems to be formed not on the lexical root of the paradigm but instead on the stem of another member of the paradigm.
- Aronoff (2004), a pag.49