Nominal Compounding as a Productive Word-formation Process in ...
Nominal Compounding as a Productive Word-formation Process in ...
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<strong>Compound<strong>in</strong>g</strong>: Phonology<br />
• Compounds differ from phr<strong>as</strong>es b<strong>as</strong>ed on<br />
• Obstruent voic<strong>in</strong>g only with<strong>in</strong> words (Jany 2010)<br />
• nëëkopk ‘founta<strong>in</strong>’ (nëëj ‘water’ + kopk ‘mounta<strong>in</strong>’)<br />
• kë’ëxooky ‘f<strong>in</strong>gernail’ (kë’ë ‘hand’ + xooky ‘nail’)<br />
But: mëk uky ‘strong purple’ (mëk ‘strong’ + uky ‘purple’)<br />
• Sonorant devoic<strong>in</strong>g only at word boundary (Jany 2010)<br />
• kaajpn ‘village’, But: kaajpnkopk ‘capital’<br />
• N<strong>as</strong>al place <strong>as</strong>similation only with<strong>in</strong> words (Jany 2010)<br />
• wiimpo’k ‘forehead’ (wi<strong>in</strong> ‘eye’ + po’k ‘b<strong>as</strong>ket’)<br />
But: wi<strong>in</strong> poop ‘sclera’ (wi<strong>in</strong> ‘eye’ + poop ‘white’)
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