Re: USAGE: Circumfixes

Hi!

"Mark P. Line" <mark@...> writes:
> It's not true that those are the only ones. Verbs with inseparable
> prefixes don't have 'ge-' in their past participle forms; verbs with
> separable prefixes (or no prefix) have the 'ge-'. (I think even all the
> suppletive forms like 'gewesen' have the 'ge-', at least I can't think of
> a counterexample right off-hand.)
Hmm, nor can I... :-)

But note that all verbs in -ieren (mostly if not all are borrowings),
do *not* take 'ge-', which is something I forgot to mention in my
other mail:

> be+schneiden - be+schnitten
studieren - studiert

This is one of the cases where the Dutch PPP works differently, which
takes 'ge-' in these cases, too:

studeren - gestudeerd

**Henrik

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