👉 In the context of linguistics and semantics, malaxation is a type of morphological change that occurs when a word or phrase has been modified by combining two or more words in a way that changes their meaning. This can occur through grammatical and contextual factors such as inflectional morphology (changing the form of a noun to match its gender), affixes, or suffixes. For example, in English, "to be" is a verb which has been modified by combining "be
