Crasis

examples, crasis involves the grammaticalization of two individual lexical items into one. However, in other cases, like in the Greek examples, crasis is the...

"crow's beak" or "bent mark"), the symbol written over a vowel contracted by crasis, was originally[when?] an apostrophe after the letter: τα᾽μά. In present...

contractions or crasis. An abbreviation is a shortening by any of these or other methods. Acronyms, initialisms, contractions and crasis share some semantic...

also refer to coalescence by other metaplasms: synizesis, synaeresis or crasis. Spanish, Portuguese and Italian use synalepha, which is important in counting...

Coarticulation (Co-articulated consonant, Secondary articulation) Consonant harmony Crasis Dissimilation Labialisation Language game Lenition Metathesis Palatalization...

("beautiful") and ἀγαθός ("good" or "virtuous"), the second of which is combined by crasis with καί "and" to form κἀγαθός. Werner Jaeger summarizes it as "the chivalrous...

diarrhea). The coronis (κορωνίς, korōnís, 'curved') marks a vowel contracted by crasis. It was formerly an apostrophe placed after the contracted vowel, but is...

and the circumflex indicate stress and vowel height, the grave indicates crasis, the tilde represents nasalization, and the cedilla marks the result of...

Greek, vowel contraction in general, including synaeresis and crasis, is often called crasis or is analysed into various classes using related terms. Trask...

of English consonant clusters Co-articulated consonant Consonant harmony Crasis Deletion (phonology) Dissimilation Epenthesis Labialization Palatalization...

and then epenthesis of -mr- to -mbr-) In addition, speakers often employ crasis or elision between two words to avoid a hiatus caused by vowels: the choice...

end (paragoge) Synalepha, two syllables becoming one, occurs by elision, crasis, synaeresis, or synizesis. Elision ("contraction" in English grammar), removal...

('we think') and pensámos ('we thought'). proposes that it is a kind of crasis rather than phonemic distinction of /a/ and /ɐ/. It means that in falamos...

sounds. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share...

sounds in a word Synalepha, merged syllables Synaeresis, combined vowels Crasis, merged vowels or diphthongs Contraction (operator theory), in operator...

linking R Consonant mutation Tone sandhi Vowel hiatus Synalepha Elision Crasis Synaeresis and diaeresis Synizesis Other types Apophony Affrication Gemination...

thought'; spelled ⟨pensamos⟩ in Brazil). Spahr proposes that it is a kind of crasis rather than phonemic distinction of /a/ and /ɐ/. It means that in falamos...

is modified before adding the case suffixes. Alternation (linguistics) Crasis Elision Liaison (French) Linking and intrusive R Movable nu Schiffman, Harold...

linking R Consonant mutation Tone sandhi Vowel hiatus Synalepha Elision Crasis Synaeresis and diaeresis Synizesis Other types Apophony Affrication Gemination...

linking R Consonant mutation Tone sandhi Vowel hiatus Synalepha Elision Crasis Synaeresis and diaeresis Synizesis Other types Apophony Affrication Gemination...