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haplologize en · VERB

Etymology

From haplology + -ize.

Meanings

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

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