27-06-2020, 01:33 PM
I would be careful about "prefix-root-suffix", what's on the surface is some multilayered vord construction, like there is "ol", there is "tol", then there is "otol", then "qotol". But then it's not definite whether "qotol" is "q + otol" or "qo + tol", or whether "otol" is "o + tol" or "ot + ol". On the other hand, there is, say, "otolary", again it's not clear whether it's "otol + ary" or "otolar + y".
There seem to be prefixes and suffixes, but when you are decomposing long vords into their shorter counterparts you come to the situation of very basic "roots", essentially bigrams, like "ol" or "ar".
There is also the "curve-line" phenomenon there, of which there's been an article by Cham & Jackson in 2015 (my review and the discussion can be found in our "Peer reviews" section).
There seem to be prefixes and suffixes, but when you are decomposing long vords into their shorter counterparts you come to the situation of very basic "roots", essentially bigrams, like "ol" or "ar".
There is also the "curve-line" phenomenon there, of which there's been an article by Cham & Jackson in 2015 (my review and the discussion can be found in our "Peer reviews" section).