The next rule adds n to a strong root when it is followed by +GEN+ and a nonbilabial consonant: XFST also defines cleanup rules to remove tags such asˆStrongRoot.
the XFST transducer relates the following two strings: (6) XFST Upper: akanjoˆStrongRoot +GEN+ olona Surface: akanjon-olona 'a person's clothes' When the XFST transducer is composed with the LEXC transducer, the result is: akanjo +Noun +GEN+ olona +Noun LEXC Lower = XFST Upper: akanjoˆStrongRoot +GEN+ olona Surface: akanjon-olona 'a person's clothes' Our current treatment of genitive compounding depends on the presence of the hyphen or apostrophe to signal the compound boundary; however, in a minority of cases genitive compounding involves only concatenation of roots, and is not signaled by special punctuation.