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What does underlyingly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a way that underlies.
  2. (linguistics) In the underlying form.
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Whether you are overly generous or underlyingly mean, you have to make a judgment about what sort of thing would be appropriate regarding size and cost.
This means that a word which is underlyingly trisyllabic is realized as a disyllabic word on the surface representation.
Trommer also shows that inflectional affixes which appear to be bisyllabic must either be decomposed into different markers or must be underlyingly monosyllabic.
The syllables which were underlyingly light had to remain monomoraic also on the surface level.
Though they are similar on the surface, the complementation patterns following want, advise, and know are underlyingly different.
Yidiny consonants, with no underlyingly voiceless consonants, are posited.

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