Re: (Separable) suffixes?
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 22, 2007, 13:03 |
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In a message dated 2/22/2007 4:34:00 AM Central Standard Time,
philip.newton@GMAIL.COM writes:
> Word spacing is an artefact of orthography. Why shouldn't the parts of
> English phrasal verbs (or whatever they were called again) that look
> like prepositions be considered verb suffixes?
>
Because they don't necessarily follow the verb. In other words, they don't
act like other morphemes that are considered to suffixes.
stevo
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