“…Birkenmaier (1980), Drossard (1982), Greenberg (1972), Koptjevskaja-Tamm (2004 : -bar, -eben, fall, -gut, -ler, -lieh, -ling -Jos, -nis, -sam, -Schaft, -tum, - The analytical problem that there is no sharp boundary between compounding and affixal derivation is not solved by postulating a category of semi-affixes or affixoids. That is just a convenient description of the fact that the boundary between compounding and derivation is blurred, but does not in itself provide an explanation of why this is the case.…”