Definitions

1. Reduplication is a very common practice in Persian, to the extent that there are jokes about it.
2. Reduplication is a morphological process in which a root or stem or part of it is repeated.
3. Reduplication is a regular part of the language that usually denotes intensity.
4. Reduplication is the process of repeating a word or part of it to express some grammatical function, plurality for example.
5. Reduplication was further adapted to the expression of intensity and desire (in the so-called intensive and desiderative forms). (Web site)

Reduplication

1. All of the examples above consist of only reduplication.
2. Greek ------------, kyklos = " circle ") has reduplication, likely for onomatopoeia.
3. Fabricius, Anne H. (2006). A comparative survey of reduplication in Australian languages.
4. Reduplication of an adjective is also used to indicate plurality of the corresponding noun.
5. More can be learned about English reduplication in Thun (1963), Cooper and Ross (1975), and Nevins and Vaux (2003).

Forms

1. Indo-European languages formerly used reduplication to form a number of verb forms, especially in the preterite or perfect tenses.
2. The Proto-Indo-European language used partial reduplication in perfect tense forms of verb roots.
3. In pre-1972 Indonesian and Malay orthography, 2 was shorthand for the reduplication that forms plurals: orang "person", orang-orang or orang2 "people"[1].

Standard Mandarin

1. Verb reduplication is also common in Standard Mandarin, conveying the meaning of informal and temporary character of the action.
2. Noun reduplication is found in the southwestern dialect of Mandarin, which is nearly absent in standard Mandarin (Guoyu).

Involves

1. Full reduplication involves a reduplication of the entire word.
2. As a result, reduplication is interesting theoretically as it involves the interface between phonology and morphology.
3. The reduplicating aorist involves reduplication as well as vowel reduction of the stem. (Web site)

Process

1. Other Indo-European verbs used reduplication as a derivational process; compare Latin sto ("I stand") and sisto ("I remain").
2. Vowel syncope process Eastern Ojibwe and Odaawaa experiences happen after the word has gone through reduplication. (Web site)

Often

1. In addition to phonological description, reduplication often needs to be described morphologically as a reduplication of linguistic constituents (i.e.
2. Continuation or completion Reduplication is, evidently, often used in the formation of present, progressive or perfective. (Web site)

Morphological

1. Reduplication, in linguistics, is a morphological process by which the root or stem of a word, or only part of it, is repeated.
2. However, reduplication often occurs with other phonological and morphological process, such as deletion, affixation of non-reduplicating material, etc.

Meaning

1. Afrikaans regularly utilizes reduplication to emphasize the meaning of the word repeated.
2. The term dupleme has been used (after morpheme) to refer to different types of reduplication that have the same meaning.

Uses

1. Chinese also uses reduplication: --- r--n for "person", ------ r--nr--n for "everybody".
2. The Nama language uses reduplication to increase the force of a verb: go, "look;", go-go "examine with attention".

Japanese

1. A small number of native Japanese nouns have collective forms produced by reduplication (possibly with rendaku).
2. Japanese also contains a large number of mimetic words formed by reduplication of a syllable.

Beginning

1. Internal reduplication can also involve copying the beginning or end of the base.
2. NOTE 2.--Verbs beginning with sp or st retain both consonants in the reduplication, but drop s from the stem; as, sponde--, spo-pond--; st--, stet--. (Web site)

Prefixed

1. Here we have prefixed reduplication accompanied with a binding consonant. (Web site)
2. It was also pointed that Finnish has prefixed reduplication in some intensified adjectival forms. (Web site)

Once

1. In reduplication, the reduplicant is most often repeated only once.
2. However, in some languages, reduplication can occur more than once, resulting in a tripled form, and not a duple as in most reduplication.

Sometimes

1. Sometimes gemination can be analyzed as a type of reduplication.
2. Sometimes, reduplication of nouns becomes adjectives in Indonesian.

Found

1. A rare type of reduplication is found in Semai (an Austro-Asiatic language of Malaysia).
2. Reduplication is found in a wide range of languages and language groups, though its level of linguistic productivity varies.
3. Reduplication (t--- l--y) is found abundantly in Vietnamese. (Web site)

Emphasis

1. Cantonese also uses reduplication for augmentation or emphasis. (Web site)
2. Then there are numerous instances of reduplication that communicate contrastive emphasis. (Web site)

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