Nice video as always. If you are ever looking to expand this video with more examples, Malay/Indonesian has a much more extensive and interesting system of circumfixes than German past participles (as you probably well know...).
At 4:40 you discuss 'ikchokmo'. I am wondering if this 'o' ending suggests any doubtfulness. An equivalent in English could be like 'no-good, eh?' In my native language (Tamil) we have such use of a 'o' ending to express doubt (though not as a circumfix). It is in the nature of inferring based on another person's facial expression and posing a negative as a question with some doubt. In Japanese, I suspect 'yo' may be a possible equivalent.
thank you so much for the lessons. But I'm torn in these words ;unimaginable, irresponsible and generosity whether they are suffix or prefix I don't know. Thank you in advance:)
Hi Claudine, no these are not circumfixes. They are independent affixes (prefix and suffix) each conveying a bit of different meaning. The UN is a negation in unimaginable just as IR is a negation for IRRESPONSIBLE. But able is a suffix making it an adjective whereas imagine by itself is a verb, so -able suffix is a derivational suffix causing it to change class from verb to adjective. A circumfix is where a SINGLE affix is split in two, like he showed. English does not really have that except for the slang examples he gave. Other languages do as he indicated. God bless!
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Thanks a lot. It helped me understanding circumfixes
Nice video as always. If you are ever looking to expand this video with more examples, Malay/Indonesian has a much more extensive and interesting system of circumfixes than German past participles (as you probably well know...).
very interesting!
Can you use circumfixes as adjectives and adverbs?
At 4:40 you discuss 'ikchokmo'. I am wondering if this 'o' ending suggests any doubtfulness. An equivalent in English could be like 'no-good, eh?' In my native language (Tamil) we have such use of a 'o' ending to express doubt (though not as a circumfix). It is in the nature of inferring based on another person's facial expression and posing a negative as a question with some doubt. In Japanese, I suspect 'yo' may be a possible equivalent.
thank you so much for the lessons. But I'm torn in these words ;unimaginable, irresponsible and generosity whether they are suffix or prefix I don't know. Thank you in advance:)
Hi Claudine, no these are not circumfixes. They are independent affixes (prefix and suffix) each conveying a bit of different meaning. The UN is a negation in unimaginable just as IR is a negation for IRRESPONSIBLE. But able is a suffix making it an adjective whereas imagine by itself is a verb, so -able suffix is a derivational suffix causing it to change class from verb to adjective. A circumfix is where a SINGLE affix is split in two, like he showed. English does not really have that except for the slang examples he gave. Other languages do as he indicated. God bless!
Are there circumfixes in English?
Not that I know of.
Is this occurs in Spanish language?
-en suffix
ge- prefix
-t suffix