Sandhi

Sandhi means 'joining' in Grammaric and is a collection of phenomenae that occur whenever two morphemes are joined together. In this dictionary, we distinguish three different types of sandhi: left sandhi, right sandhi and inflection sandhi:

• Left sandhi phenomenae occur on the left-hand side of a morpheme. Thus, only bound morphemes (i.e. affixes and endings) have left-sandhi, because only bound morphemes may be joined onto something to their left-hand side. Some common examples of left-sandhi are truncative, replacive and aq_dropping.

• Right sandhi phenomenae occur on the right-hand side of a morpheme. Thus, only stems (i.e. bases and affixes) have right-sandhi, because only stems may have morphemes joined onto them on their right-hand side. Some common examples of right-sandhi are aq_drop, assibilation and tc_exception.

• Inflection sandhi are a special subclass of right-sandhi, which only occur when endings are joined onto a stem. Thus, these phenomena may affect the form of both stem and ending in addition to effects caused by the general right-sandhi phenomena (which also may affect affixes). Some common examples of inflection-sandhi are gemination, metathesis and weakening.

If any sandhi phenomenae are present on a morpheme, you can click on their names and get a short description of what it denotes.