Meaning of haplologize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To undergo haplology.
   intransitive
2. To shorten by haplology.
   transitive

Examples

“In neither instance is more than one possessive s manifested (*McMug's's); the predicted two suffixes ''haplologize to a single instance of s.”

“De Lacy admits that "[coalescence] does not make any prediction about the preservation of features when two affixes haplologize."”

“A number of IE languages show a tendency to haplologize sequences of the type *-sVs- to *-s-,”

“For example, if the word haplology were to undergo haplology (were to be haplologized), it would reduce the sequence lolo to lo, haplology > haplogy.”

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