Hlou-Shum languages: Difference between revisions

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Proto-Hlou-Shum was head-initial like Vietnamese.
Proto-Hlou-Shum was head-initial like Vietnamese.
===Reduplication===
===Reduplication===
Reduplication was used for noun plurals, verbal imperatives, and adverbs from adjectives.
Total reduplication was used for noun plurals, verbal imperatives, and adverbs from adjectives.
 
Some descendants turned this into partial reduplication.
 
===Derivation===
===Derivation===
*''s-'': nominalization, "metonymy", adjectivizer
*''s-'': nominalization, "metonymy", adjectivizer