Re: (Separable) suffixes?
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 22, 2007, 22:43 |
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In a message dated 2/22/2007 7:37:18 AM Central Standard Time,
philip.newton@GMAIL.COM writes:
> My point was that a form in English could be equally validly
> considered a suffix, even when it is neither affixed to the form _in a
> given situation_ nor, perhaps, necessarily even after it, as long as
> in some "ideal" form, it's suffixed.
>
> Or would you say that "aus-" in "ausmachen" is not a prefix since it
> doesn't "act like other morphemes that are considered to [be
>
I'm no longer sure that separable prefixes really are prefixes, although I've
always called them that before. It's been mentioned that spaces between
words are an artefact of orthography, so the German "prefix" is no more or less
part of its verb than the corresponding English verb particle.
stevo
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