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Peer reviewedCrowhurst, Megan J. – Language, 1998
Examines the behavior of the morpheme, um, in Toba Batak and Tagalog, which alternates as a prefix or an infix, arguing that the variation is conditioned by constraints on consonant clusters. Three patterns of variation that occur with um are described, noting that the stages involved in changing from infixed to prefixed positions over time are…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Morphology (Languages), Phonology
