haplologize

present singular third person haplologizes · participle present haplologizing · participle past haplologized · past haplologized

1. intransitiveTo 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

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   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. transitiveTo shorten by haplology.

   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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   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