The more relevant, the closer; the less relevant, the more marginal.Others use “semantic scope” rather than “relevance” to predict relative affix ordering (e.g., Keren Rice).The relative chronology of univerbation is another predictor that has been suggested:The older the affix, the closer to the stem; the more recently univerbated, the more marginal.The interesting question is how well the relevance/scope predictions agree with the diachronic prediction.
The more relevant, the closer; the less relevant, the more marginal.Others use “semantic scope” rather than “relevance” to predict relative affix ordering (e.g., Keren Rice).The relative chronology of univerbation is another predictor that has been suggested:The older the affix, the closer to the stem; the more recently univerbated, the more marginal.The interesting question is how well the relevance/scope predictions agree with the diachronic prediction.