Re: impositions
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 7, 2004, 9:22 |
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On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 06:58:23 +0100, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> On Monday, October 4, 2004, at 01:19 , Chris Bates wrote:
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> > I just realized... if a affix is a suffix at the end of the word,
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> No! A suffix is an affix at the end of a word!
Yes! That's what he said!
At least if you read it (as I did) as "If an affix is called a suffix
when it occurs at the end of the word, a prefix when it occurs at the
start, and an infix when it occurs in the middle, ..." -- that is,
"there are groups of morphemes called, collectively, 'affixes'; some
of these occur only at the beginning of words, and are called
'prefixes' to distinguish them from other affixes [etc.]".
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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