Word Categories
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Rule 9: Inuktitut words can be classified to their grammatical properties.
Shared Properties of Nouns and Verbs
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Rule 10: What makes a noun a noun is that is contains a noun ending. What makes a verb a verb is that is contains a verb ending.
Deep form of Chunks
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Rule 11: When a chunk occurs in a given word, it has a concrete form called its surface form. The surface form of a chunk often varies depending on words.
Truncating and Additive Chunks
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Rule 12: All chunks except bases are either truncating or additive.
Softenings
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Rule 13: The initial p or t of some additive chunks softens into v or j after a vowel.
Assimilation Rules
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Rule 14: Assimilation is the process by which two nearby sounds become more similar to each other.
Reduction of Vowel and Consonant Groups
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Rule 15: Processes occurring when two vowels or two consonants appear in a row.
Special Deletion of a Consonant
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Rule 16: What to do when an additive noun beginning with a consonant plus a vowel is added to a base or post base ending with two vowels plus a consonant or taq/juaq.