Re: USAGE: Circumfixes

Tamas Racsko wrote:

>On 9 May 2004 Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@N...> wrote:
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>>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Tamas Racsko <tracsko@F...>
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>>>  I agree with your analysis that German (and Dutch, Yiddish, etc)
>>>weak past participles is formed by circumfix.
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>>Strong past participles as well, though the latter also use ablaut.
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>  I thought the problem over again, maybe I was wrong when I
>agreed.
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>  I've forget that prefixed verbs have no ge- in past participle,
>e.g. schreib.en 'to write' > ge.schrieb.en 'written' vs.
>ab.schreib.en 'write down, copy' > ab.schrieb.en.
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That's not a weak verb, though.  So, in your original statement, you
were correct.  And I believe you are incorrect in your example.  A
google for "Ich habe es abschrieben" turns up nothing, but "Ich habe es
abgeschrieben" turns up 25.  Not conclusive, but I reckon it's true.
The only affixes that supress the 'ge-' are 'be-' and 'ver-'(Ich habe
ihn besucht, Ich habe es verkauft)

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