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'Fuckin' insertion is a process in English by which a restricted class of infixes (fuckin', bloody, bloomin) is inserted between two metrical feet of which the latter one contains the syllable that carries the main stress.
Example
(i) mònonga-fuckin-héla
fàn-bloody-tástic
àbso-bloomin'-lútely
(ii) * monòng-fuckin-ahéla
* chíco-fuckin-pèe
* chi-fuckin-cágo
Another term for this process is Expletive Infixation.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Aronoff, M. 1976. Word Formation in Generative Grammar, MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
- McCarthy 1982a. Prosodic Structure and Expletive Infixation, Language 58, pp. 574-590
