Does Japanese have any infixes?


In English, we have prefixes, like "pre-"; suffixes, like "-ize"; and
arguably, expletives that function as infixes (one classic example is "abso-
fucking-lutely").

In Japanese, we also have prefixes, like 超～, 大～; and suffixes, like ～っぽい,
～化{か}. Does Japanese have any infixes, though? I'm interested both in any
modern, productive infixes that may exist that I'm not aware of, as well as
any historically-productive infixes that are now fossilized.




To the best of my knowledge there are none. Infixes are really pretty rare
crosslinguistically, so it's not that surprising. English's expletive ones are
pretty unusual even by English's standards, and as far as I know they're not
particularly productive (I can't think of too many words you're actually
allowed to use them with).




From Natsuko Tsujimura's _An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics_ , page 148:

> Infixes are bound morphemes that are inserted in the middle of a word rather
> than being placed before or after it. **Japanese does not have any examples
> of infixes.** _(emphasis added)_

