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===Compounding=== | ===Compounding=== | ||
Compounding is frequent and very productive, but in most words is limited to two roots. Stress in | Compounding is frequent and very productive, but in most words is limited to two roots. Stress in ad hoc compounds shifts left from the last word's original stress, but in many older compounds is either initial or final as a non-compound word of the same part of speech, or have irregular stress. | ||
In some regions productive compounds are not limited to two roots, instead either being limited to three or having no limit. | In some regions productive compounds are not limited to two roots, instead either being limited to three or having no limit. | ||