Re: "discontinuous affixes"

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).

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