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Article: Intervocalic -v- deletion in Tamil: evidence for aspect as a morphological category.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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1. LEXICAL PHONOLOGY AND TAMIL
1.1. Introduction
Tamil possesses a rule of intervocalic -v- deletion that has eluded systematic attempts at formulation because of the diverse morphological and syntactic environments in which it occurs. In a previous analysis (Schiffman 1979: 6) I have stated the rule as occurring after the second syllable, but said little about various morphological exceptions. The problem is complex, since there are underlying -v-s in some lexemes that are deleted, but -v- is also introduced in inflection and in syntax by a sandhi rule that prevents vowels from coalescing. In particular, -v- is inserted after a back vowel and ...
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