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* Putting this here before I forget, more NI stuff.  Many (most?) of the NI forms of Minhast nouns are irregular, the majority of which exhibit what I call "truncation".  I've never seen this word in the NI literature before, but here's an example from the Sora language (Munda family, India).  The first example shows the analytic version of the sentence "Will they eat the buffalo/ Do they eat buffalo?".  The second example shows the noun incorporated-version of the same sentence:

| morphemes = bɔŋtɛl-әn-әdɔŋ jom-t-ɛ-ji pɔ

}}<br/>Notice in the independent form of buffalo, ''bɔŋtɛl'', loses its final syllable in its incorporated form, ''-bɔŋ-''.  Minhast exhibits extensive truncation when nouns undergo incorporation, e.g. ''sussagarānī'' > ''-suggan-''  (big toe), ''hispawak'' > ''-hispak-'' (birch), ''izzesparak'' > ''-spark-'' (canoe).<br/><br/> Nouns of three syllables or more are almost always truncated, and the pattern of truncation is unpredictable; syllable loss may occur in initial, medial, or final positions, although nouns with tri-syllabic roots tend to lose either their medial or final syllables and retain the initial syllable, but exceptions abound, such as ''allāga'' > ''-lgagg-'' (conch) .  <br/><br/> - Sora examples taken from "NOUN INCORPORATION: A NEW THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE" (Alessio Muro, 2009) <br/><br/>23:34, 10 February 2019 (CET)