Starting from observations from (Belgian-)Dutch usage, the present article offers a comparison of affixoids (better known in English as "semi-affixes") in German and Dutch. We begin with a discussion of recent developments in the affixoid debate with regard to both German and Dutch and then compare prefixoids and suffixoids in the two languages on the basis of corpus data. As it turns out, divergences between German and Dutch affixoids (though at times considerable) are not due to differences between the linguistic systems. Rather, they are associated exclusively with the level of norm, raising interesting questions as to potential determining factors and making a wider crosslinguistic comparison of affixoids (e.g. including Swedish) an even more promising proposition
