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Re: "discontinuous affixes"

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, May 10, 1999, 17:41
FFlores wrote:
> > David G. Durand <dgd@...> wrote: > > > > A discontinuous affix would be a pair, like To- -na. Applied to the word > > vriktna, you would get the _two_ morphome word: > > to-vriktna-na > > 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). -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor