Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c8.12

c8.12

| Section | Page | Section | Page |
| 7.3 Dependent sounds (*cārpeḻuttu*) | 254 | II. MORPHOPHONEMICS | |
| 7.3.1 Shortened *-i* (*kuṟṟiyal-ikaram*) | 254 | 7.9 Definition | 271 |
| 7.3.2 Shortened *-u* (*kuṟṟiyal-ukaram*) | 254 | 7.10 Sandhi without change | 271 |
| 7.3.3 The āytam (*ḵ*) | 254 | 7.11 Sandhi of consonant and vowel | 271 |
| 7.4 Distribution of vowels | 255 | 7.11.1 In personal names | 272 |
| 7.4.1 Initial | 255 | 7.11.2 In place names | 272 |
| 7.4.2 Medial | 255 | 7.12 Mutation of initial stem in sandhi | 272 |
| 7.4.3 Final | 256 | 7.13 Changes in sandhi | 273 |
| 7.4.4 Vowel clusters | 256 | 7.14 Assimilation | 273 |
| 7.5 Distribution of consonants | 257 | 7.14.1 Regressive assimilation | 273 |
| 7.5.1 In the Corpus | 257 | 7.14.2 Progressive assimilation | 274 |
| 7.5.2 Comparison with *Tolkāppiyam* | 261 | 7.14.3 Mutual assimilation | 275 |
| 7.6 Distribution of consonant-vowels | 263 | 7.15 Addition | 275 |
| 7.6.1 In the Corpus | 263 | 7.15.1 Addition of glide *-y-* | 275 |
| 7.6.2 Comparison with *Tolkāppiyam* | 263 | 7.15.2 Addition of glide *-v-* | 276 |
| 7.7 Sound variations | 265 | 7.15.3 Doubling of the final consonant | 277 |
| 7.7.1 Vowels | 265 | 7.15.4 Doubling of the initial consonant | 277 |
| 7.7.2 Consonants | 267 | 7.16 Elision | 278 |
| 7.8 Some phonological processes | 269 | 7.16.1 Elision of a stem-final vowel | 278 |
| 7.8.1 Addition of paragogic suffixes | 269 | 7.16.2 Elision of the stem-final shortened *-u* | 279 |
| 7.8.2 Addition of the euphonic vowel *-u* | 270 | 7.16.3 With doubling of the preceding consonant | 279 |
| 7.8.3 Addition of the prothetic vowel *i-* | 270 | 7.16.4 Elision of the stem-final suffix *-(a)m* | 279 |
| 7.8.4 Contraction | 270 | 7.16.5 Elision of the stem-final PNG suffix *-(a)ṉ* before a noun | 280 |
| 7.8.5 Loss of initial palatal *c-* | 270 | | |
| 7.8.6 Elision of nasal *n* | 270 | | |
| 7.8.7 Elision of *n* with doubling of consonants | 270 | 7.16.6 Elision of the PNG suffix *-(a)ṉ* before a genitive suffix | 280 |
| 7.8.8 Elision of nasal *ṉ* | 270 | | |