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> Hi, folks!
>
> We all know about agglutinating and inflecting languages where morphemes
are
> added to a root to change its meaning or function in the sentence. I was
> wondering: are there instead natlangs marking a morphologic feature
deleting
> a part of the root? The only one I can think about is French. From the
> infinitive _rendre_ /R6~dR/ we get _je rendais_ /ZR6~'de/ in the
imperfect,
> but _je rends_ /ZR6~/ in the present tense, dropping /d/ because of
> historical trivia; or the way it marks masculine adjectives, that is often
> dropping the femminine last consonant - we discussed it some months ago,
> remember?
>
> In Draseléq (P. Flores' best conlang) the verb shows a consonant (Extended
> Stem Consonant) in some inflected forms, while in others it is dropped:
>
> drasten 'to cross'
> dras 'he/she/it crosses'
> drasut 'we cross'
> draster 'you (pl) cross'
> drasek 'they cross'
>
> Are there natlangs showing such a strange arrangement? And how did they
> develop it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Luca
>
>