Kevin Patrick Scannell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
Yes, sorry about that.   I'm no expert of course - but as I recall
there are both infixes: pili -> p+in+ili and reduplication of
prefixes pili -> pi+pili.   The real issue is the latter - the 
reduplicated string can be of any length (even the whole word),
and you can't encode every string as an affix.
<<

Kevin,

This is very similar to the German 
hinspazieren hinzuspazieren  or aussehen ausgesehen case, which can be easily 
solved using prefixes:

hinspazieren/b

PFX b Y 1
PFX b hin       hinzu       hin   # creates hinzuspazieren from hinspazieren


Your case can be easily solved with suffixes:

pili/c

SFX c Y 2
SFX c ili       inili       ili    # creates pinili from pili
SFX c li        pili        li     # creates pipili from pili

For the second case probably a prefix solution is better as listed above.
Do not forget, that a suffix class can handle virtually any number of 
variations.
(In the above case 2)

affixes/prefixes are mighty tools.

Thanks, Eleonora



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