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Fuckin' insertion

SYNTAX: 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.
LIT. Aronoff, M. (1976)
McCarthy (1982a)