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(Separable) suffixes?

From:Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 21:08
Hello list

[Please excuse any faux pas as this is my first posting to the list)

A proportion of you will probably be familiar with languages, such as German
and Hungarian, in which verbs may take prefixes (often derived from (pre- or
post-)positions) to modify the meaning, in a similar way to English phrasal
verbs, e.g. "ausgehen" (to go out, to exit), from "gehen"/"to go" and
"aus"/"out", or "leirja"/"to write down" from "irja"/"to write" and
"le"/"down". In both of those languages, these prefixes are separable (and
therefore phrases with the separated prefix look, syntactically, even more
like English: "Er geht aus"/"he goes out, he leaves"; "Irja le"/"He/she
writes it down", "Le akarna irni"/"He/she wants to write it down".

Now to the main point: Are there any (nat- or con-)langs anyone knows of,
which are suffixing and use suffixes (specifically, identical to/derived
from prepositions) in the same way (e.g. as if the verb "to go out" in
German were "gehenaus" or "gehausen", rather than "ausgehen"?)

If not, is such a thing even plausible?

TIA

Jeff