wordfinally
Wordfinally is a term used in linguistics to describe phenomena that occur at the final position of a word within a larger unit, such as a phrase or sentence. It denotes features or processes conditioned by word-final position and is distinguished from word-initial and word-medial phenomena. The term is not a fixed linguistic category; its interpretation varies by language and research tradition.
Origin and usage: The word appears to have emerged in the early 2020s in typological and morphophonological
Examples of wordfinal phenomena may include: final-syllable stress or tonal patterns that apply only to the
Relation to other concepts: Wordfinally is typically contrasted with word-initial and word-medial phenomena and with broader
See also: word-initial, word-medial, phrase-final, sentence-final, clitic, morphophonology. References in the literature vary by tradition, with