Re: (Separable) suffixes?

In a message dated 2/21/2007 3:22:54 PM Central Standard Time,
jeff.rollin@GMAIL.COM writes:


> 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
>
Esperanto uses prepositions as prefixes, but they aren't separable.

stevo

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