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.

Rule of Double Consonants

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Rule 17: When building a word, after all other rules have applied, if a group of two consonants is followed by another group of two consonants, the first consonant of the second group is deleted.

Properties of Noun Endings

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Rule 18: All noun endings express case and number. Noun endings can also express possessor.
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