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30. Citation vs Combining Stem Shapes and Support Vowels

How do citation and combining stem shapes differ in Hokkaido Ainu, including support vowels, truncation, and consonant alternations?

北海道アイヌ語において、引用形と結合形の語幹形状は、支持母音、語幹末削除、子音交替を含めてどのように異なるか?

The systematic mismatch between a morpheme's citation (concept) shape and its bound combining shape — final-consonant support vowels, stem-final truncation, and consonant alternations exposed only under affixation or compounding.

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Overview 1 claims ·5 sentences

What phonological conditions govern the alternation between citation and combining forms in Hokkaido Ainu?

  1. Non-phonemic epenthetic vowels appear in pronunciation in Sakhalin Ainu and are inserted in transcription to improve readability.
    樺太アイヌ語の発音において音韻論的ではない介在母音が現れ、可読性のために表記上も挿入される。
    alternation sakhalin exists 'omanu wa 'isam
    asserts murasaki2025

Coda /r/: citation release and combining forms 6 sentences

How does coda /r/ behave in citation and combining forms in Hokkaido Ainu?

Casual reduction of word-final /r/ and the koro/kor pair 6 sentences

What is the casual reduction of word-final /r/ in Hokkaido Ainu, and how does it differ from productive sandhi?

The t + i → ci rule at morpheme junctions 14 sentences· 1 examples

How does the /t/ + /i/ junction palatalize in Hokkaido Ainu?

usa mat-ikor usa tamasay
various woman-treasure various bead.necklace
‘women's treasures and bead-necklaces’
biratori1969 SAR 川上まつ子, アイヌ語アーカイブ「ワシ神の化身と人間の娘 (1986)」[nam-archive/kawakami-minwa/09#465]

Vowel elision in the combining forms of ku= and ci= 15 sentences· 2 examples

How do the prefixes ku= and ci= reduce before vowel-initial stems in Hokkaido Ainu?

k=oman
1SG.S=go
‘I go / I am going.’
constructed
ku=iunin
1SG.S=ache
‘I ache.’
constructed

at-rus → attus: a compound assimilation 11 sentences· 1 examples

How does the compound at-rus become attus in Hokkaido Ainu, and what are its dialect reflexes?

hangan attus mi wa
magistrate attus.robe wear CONJ
‘The magistrate put on an attus robe and …’
ainukoraci1991 SAR 小松哲郎, Ainu Times vol. 12 (沙流・千歳) [ainu-times/012/2#5]

koré: two analyses of a lexicalized junction 9 sentences

What are the two analyses of the verb koré in Hokkaido Ainu?

The affiliative suffix as a support-vowel paradigm 4 sentences

How do consonant-final nouns form the possessed (affiliative) form in Hokkaido Ainu?

Summary of combining-form alternations 2 sentences

What are the principal citation/combining alternations in Hokkaido Ainu?