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Affixations

Affixes are common in both Standard American English and African American English, however, in AAVE affixes are seen to be used in a variety of creative ways. A lot of these new creations can lead to current words having new meanings that did not exist prior. Examples of this phenomena happening in AAVE is when affixes are added to slang terms within the language, creating a new meaning for it. There are various popular phrases that came from this type of production such as "gangbanger" and "sistahood"/"brothahood". Note that it does not only have to be created through already existent slang, but can instead be created on the spot by speakers.