Re: "discontinuous affixes"

Matt Pearson wrote:
> there are indisputable
> cases of an infix appearing inside another affix, suggesting that the
> proper definition of "infix" is "an affix which appears inside another
> morpheme", rather than "an affix which appears inside a root".
Hmm, I see your point.  I suppose, as Tom has already said, it depends
on the language's structure, much as in phonology whether [ts] is
considered an affricate or simply a sequence of consonants depends on
the specific language.

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