CHAPTER II
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Morphophonemic
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When two or more morphemes occur together to form a word then sometimes
there is some change in the phonemic shape of the morphemes. Such kinds of
changes are dealt with in this section. The most general morphonemic
changes will be dealt here in this section and irregular alternates are
dealt within the Morphology section.
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(i) XCV(C)®XC(C)/-V(C)
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Intervocalic or final vowel of at least a disyllabic stem in XCV(C)
position is dropped when followed by a suffix beginning with a vowel in
the word formation. This may cause some new consonant cluster formation.
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Examples:
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Two identical or similar vowels cannot occur together in a single word
with the result when the stem final vowel V is followed by an identical
vowel with or without over tones in the formation of a word then the
preceding V is dropped.
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Examples are:
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n-med ®
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nmed
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‘not hopeful’
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kha-ã
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khã
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‘eat’(Ip.pl.)
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de-ẽ
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dẽ
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‘give’(II & IIIp.pl.)
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pè-ẽ
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‘wet’(IIp & IIIp. pl.)
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Except the above mentioned examples when the /a/ ending verb stems are
followed by /ã/
suffix then /w/ comes in between.
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Examples are:
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la-ã
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lawã
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‘put on’ (Ip.pl.)
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a-ã
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awã
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‘come’(Ip.pl.)
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krwa-ã
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krwawã
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‘cause some one to do’
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(Ip.pl.)
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