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Glossary term S

Separable Affix

Definition

A separable affix is an affix that can be detached from its stem and located elsewhere in a construction.

Examples

The affix an- is a separable affix. It is attached to its stem in the verb ankommen ‘to arrive’; but it can be detached from the stem, as in the sentence Ich komme an ‘I arrive’.

See also

Stem Verb (Linguistics) Sentence

Sources 1

  1. Hartmann and Stork 1972, 207
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