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<P>Dear all, </P>
<P>Would you all consider the following to be a circumfix? <SPAN
class=437261711-18072005>How would you classify this?</SPAN><BR><BR>-ған
бол<SPAN class=437261711-18072005> </SPAN> <SPAN
class=437261711-18072005>"</SPAN>pretend to<SPAN
class=437261711-18072005>"</SPAN> <SPAN class=437261711-18072005> This is a
compound morpheme consisting of the participializing suffix -GAn +
the verb "to be" -bol, which is a root. </SPAN></P>
<P>Here's an <SPAN class=437261711-18072005>attested </SPAN>example: </P>
<DIV>Ол ойна<STRONG>ған бол</STRONG>ып ұзақты күн үйге кірмей жол қарайды.
</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Ol <SPAN class=437261711-18072005>
</SPAN>ojna<SPAN class=437261711-18072005>-</SPAN><STRONG>ɣan</STRONG>
<STRONG>bol<SPAN class=437261711-18072005>-</SPAN></STRONG>ɯp <SPAN
class=437261711-18072005> </SPAN>ɔzaqtɯ kʏn ʏj<SPAN
class=437261711-18072005>-</SPAN>ge <SPAN
class=437261711-18072005>
</SPAN>k<SPAN class=437261711-18072005>ɪ</SPAN>r<SPAN
class=437261711-18072005>-</SPAN>me<SPAN
class=437261711-18072005>-</SPAN>j <SPAN
class=437261711-18072005> </SPAN>ʒol <SPAN
class=437261711-18072005> </SPAN>qara<SPAN
class=437261711-18072005>-</SPAN>j<SPAN
class=437261711-18072005>-</SPAN>dɯ.</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=437261711-18072005><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">He
play-<STRONG>ptc be</STRONG>-CNV
long day home-into enter-NEG-pres.
road watch-pres-3S.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>He watched the road all day <STRONG>pretending to be playing</STRONG> so
that he wouldn't have to go inside.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=437261711-18072005>There are a lot of cases
grammaticalization of adverbial expressions (which would be outright
lexical items in English and Russian) in Turkic languages, so thanks for
considering this!</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=437261711-18072005><FONT face=Arial><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Regarding the question of how circumfixes are to be
displayed in a dictionary, the previous discussions reminded me of paired
conjunctions (not circumfixes) in Mandarin Chinese. For example, the paired
conjunctions 虽然。。。但是 suiran</FONT><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"> /sʷejʐan/ <FONT
face="times new">danshi</FONT> /danʂɯ/ </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=437261711-18072005>"although" is displayed in Chinese grammars
as having an elipsis between them to demonstrate that the appearance of each at
the head of both clauses is obligatory. Although Chinese is the only isolating
language I know, from my superficial observation of Thai, these features are
probably also found in Gam-Dai languages as well, owing to language's
general tendency towards binarism.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>Ken</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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