Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Occurrence of reduplication across world languages. In linguistics, reduplication is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word, part of that, or the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.
Reduplication is the repetition of part of a word. An example in Sanskrit : दा dā ("give") + PRESENT + ACTIVE + INDICATIVE + FIRST PERSON + SINGULAR → ददामि da dāmi (the da at the beginning is from reduplication of dā that involves a vowel change, a characteristic of class 3 verbs in Sanskrit)
Echo word is a linguistic term that refers to reduplication as a widespread areal feature in the languages of South Asia. Echo words are characterized by reduplication of a complete word or phrase, with the initial segment or syllable of the reduplicant being overwritten by a fixed segment or syllable. In most languages in which this phenomenon ...
Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis.It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, such as Hindi and Chinese, and so rarely termed a figure of speech.
A meatless salad may be referred to as a salad-salad, as opposed to a tuna salad.. Contrastive focus reduplication, [1] also called contrastive reduplication, [1] identical constituent compounding, [2] [3] lexical cloning, [4] [5] or the double construction, is a type of syntactic reduplication found in some languages.
Reduplication is a linguistic phenomenon in which a word is doubled, e.g. for emphasis or as a plural. This category contains reduplicant words. This category contains reduplicant words. Reduplicant place names should not be categorized here but added to the List of reduplicated place names , or the separate lists for Australia or New Zealand ...
Shm-reduplication has been advanced as an example of a natural-language phenomenon that cannot be captured by a context-free grammar. [6] The essential argument was that the reduplication can be repeated indefinitely, producing a sequence of phrases of geometrically increasing [7] length, which cannot occur in a context-free language. [6]
Pages in category "Reduplication" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...