A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
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/ n. Any morphological process involving the removal of part of a root. In Fijian, for example, verbal roots are rendered intransitive by subtraction of a final consonant: kaut-‘carry’, intr. kau; yawak- ‘go away’, intr. yawa; rai- ‘see’, intr. rai; saum- ‘repay’, intr. sau.
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