Imbrication (linguistics)
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Imbrication is a phenomenon occurring in many Bantu languages in which morphemes interweave in certain morphophonological conditions.
For example, consider the Setswana verb root -rek-a ("buy"). The passive voice is formed by adding the extension -w- to produce -rek-w-a. The perfect is formed by adding the morpheme -ile to produce -rek-ile. But when these are combined to produce the perfect form of the passive voice, the verb becomes -rek-il-w-e, with the perfect morpheme split into two pieces, rather than the expected *-rek-w-ile.
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