"prefigation" meaning in English

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        {
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          "ref": "1974, JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology",
          "text": "Despite this, however, the OHG Benedictine Rule can be used to illustrate Streitberg's definition of perfective aspect in Germanic by means of prefigation […]",
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          "ref": "1990, Papers from the Institute of Linguistics, University of Stockholm",
          "text": "A common structure of Swedish verbs is to have a stem with fairly broad meaning and a set of prefigated forms with a narrower, lexicalized meaning. This prefigation of verbs is productive only to a very small extent, […]",
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          "text": "For such perfectivization by means of lexical prefigation, see the productive prefixal paradigms in Modern Russian, […]",
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