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In my corpus of data, adverbs beginning with a vowel are dispreferred. However,
Kamanda (1998) includes several vowel-initial adverbs in his word list: =@= =@= =@= =@= ‘east’,
=@= =@= =@= =@= ~ @= @= @= @= ‘evening’, =C>K =C>K ‘onomatopoeia, imitation of the noise of the fall of a heavy
object’, =C>K(HK( =C>K(HK( ~ C>K(HK( C>K(HK( ‘of one bound’, =@= =@= =@= =@= ~ =@== =@== =@== =@== ~ @== @== @== @== ‘evening’, ==B( ==B( ==B( ==B(
‘standing’, == == == == ‘morning’, =C>=(C =C>=(C =C>=(C =C>=(C
~ C>= C>=(C C>= C>= (C (C (C
‘brusquely’, =H= =H= ‘energetically’, =J=
=J=
‘in this way’, =J=A =J=A =J=A =J=A ‘in this way’, A(=(H=(A(=(H=( A(=(H=(A(=(H=( A(=(H=(A(=(H=( A(=(H=(A(=(H=( ‘in small pieces’, @ @ @ @ H HH H
‘near to, next to’,
=H= =H= =H= =H= ‘all’, ‘reluctantly’, C=A C=A C=A C=A ~ =(C=A =(C=A =(C=A =(C=A ‘when’, K?K K?K K?K ‘before, in front of,
early’, K(K(HK( K(K(HK( K(K(HK( K(K(HK( ‘middle, between’ (his glosses). More research is needed to resolve this
discrepancy.
It is not clear that the word minimality condition observed in nouns and verbs
holds for adverbs. Several adverbs with CV word shapes are attested in my corpus. More
research is necessary on this point.
6.4 Grammatical-function-word word shapes
As expected, Mono function words are not subject to the MC found in the major
grammatical categories. Word shapes that are attested are given in (16):
(16) Grammatical-function-word word shapes
V ( ( ( (
‘same subject pronoun’
= ‘question marker’
CV
‘DET’
@=( @=(
‘CLEFT’
( ( ( (
‘of’
VCV (@ (@ (@ (@
‘and’
=(I( =(I( =(I( =(I(
‘this’
CVCV =J= =J= =J= =J=
‘since, like’
VCVCV =@A(A =@A(A =@A(A =@A(A
‘that’
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