Morphology

Morphology is the analysis and description of morphemes (the smallest parts of words e.g. root words, affixes) in a language. It also describes how they occur. This is the morphology of the Bantoanon (Asi) language.

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The Morphophonemics of Bantoanon

0. Introduction

1. Morphological Use of Stress

1.1 Same Stress Affixes
1.2 Ultimate Stress Affixes
1.3 Penultimate Stress Affixes
1.4 Reverse Stress Affixes
1.5 Ultimate/Penultimate Affixes
1.6 Contrastive Stress on Bases
1.7 Form Classes with Fixed Stress Patterns

2. Morphophonemes

2.1 H
2.2 Glottal
2.3 paN-

3. Morphonemic Alternations

3.1 d-> y
3.2 y-> l
3.3 y-> r
3.4 r-> d
3.5 g-> d
3.6 o-> w

4. Morphonemic Mechanisms

4.1 Syncope
4.2 Metathesis
4.3 Epenthesis
4.4 Haplology
4.5 Contraction and Attachment  Across Word Boundaries