A lot of people think you get this in German. At least you do if you trust
the standard orthography. E.g.
Ich werde sie aufrufen. 'I will her up-call' = I'll ring her.
Ich rufe sie auf. 'I call her up' = I ring her. verb = rufe .... auf.
At 16:22 10/03/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>This is perhaps a silly question, but here it goes anyway:
>
>Circumfixes are supposed to be discontinuous morphemes, and
>the existence of discontinuous constituents is well known;
>but does any language truly have discontinuous words?
>
>Joe
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