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Who practiced morphophonemics?
In the modern textbooks you can easily find such claims as the following from Hayes 2009:
In the 1940s and 1950s, many phonologists worked with a theory in which (roughly) all neutralizing rules were assumed to apply before all allophonic rules.…
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How did Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov's cat help him decode Mayan?
According to Wikipedia, Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the person who decoded the Mayan script
...listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work, but the editors always removed her. He always used the photo with Asya ... as his author photo, and got…
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Prefix to infix grammaticalisation
I am interested to know if there is any prefix that has become an infix in any language. The base word could be any content word (verb, noun, adjective).
I would prefer if its clear that the direction is from prefix to infix and not vice versa.
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