Fonetitsheskaja struktura kornja i suffiksal'nych morfem v komi jazyke
Structure of Stem and Suffix Morphemes of the Komi Language

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the structure of stem and suffix morphemes of the Komi language. The author singles out 14 phonetic models of stem morphemes. She also attempts to explain why the models are so many. The second part of the article dwells on suffix models and how to structure them on the basis of main phonemes' presence. The article defines the vowel and consonant phonemes not appearing in suffix morphemes. The existence of a triple-phoneme suffix structure is explained by a simplification process, some morphological processes, grammatization of certain words and parts of speech, and borrowings from the Russian language.

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