haplologize
English
Etymology
Verb
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- (intransitive) To undergo haplology.
- 2000, Morphologie / Morphology, 1. Halbband →ISBN, page 395:
- In neither instance is more than one possessive 's manifested (*McMug's's); the predicted two suffixes haplologize to a single instance of 's.
- 2007, Zheng Xu, Inflectional Morphology in Optimality Theory, →ISBN, page 17:
- De Lacy admits that "[coalescence] does not make any prediction about the preservation of features when two affixes haplologize."
- 2000, Morphologie / Morphology, 1. Halbband →ISBN, page 395:
- (transitive) To shorten by haplology.
- 1999, Compositiones indogermanicae: in memoriam Jochem Schindler (Heiner Eichner, Hans Christian Luschützky, Velizar Sadovski):
- A number of IE languages show a tendency to haplologize sequences of the type *-sVs- to *-s-,
- 2013, Lyle Campbell, Historical Linguistics, →ISBN, page 34:
- For example, if the word haplology were to undergo haplology (were to be haplologized), it would reduce the sequence lolo to lo, haplology > haplogy.
- 1999, Compositiones indogermanicae: in memoriam Jochem Schindler (Heiner Eichner, Hans Christian Luschützky, Velizar Sadovski):