Re: "discontinuous affixes"

Nik Taylor wrote:

> > I'd call that a circumphix, is there any difference?
>
> I'd say that a circumflex is a *type* of discontinuous affix, just as a
> prefix is a type of affix.  A discontinuous affix could also involve
> infixes, say -ta-...-ki-, or even prefixes, say na-...la- (that is,
> another prefix goes between the two parts).
Wouldn't that make it an infix for a prefix?