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Reduplication of the final syllable; e.g. himaymay ("separate meat from bones"), from himay (same meaning) Reduplication of the final syllable of a disyllabic word, where the added syllable is created from the first consonant of the first syllable and the last consonant of the second syllable; e.g. kaliskis ("[fish] scale"), from kalis ("to ...
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]
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 ...
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
Reduplication manifests differently depending on the consonant and vowel structure of the word. For example: the complete reduplication of CV:C word "fact" (fat) results in "factfact", translating to "very fat". This can also be seen in the word "lahs" (coral), which becomes "lahs-lahs", meaning "lots of coral".
Ablaut reduplication, or ablaut-motivated compounding, is a type of word formation of "expressives" (such as onomatopoeia or ideophones), ...
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Reduplication [3]: p.23 can emphasize or otherwise alter the meaning of a word. Examples are: ʻau "to swim"; ʻauʻau "to bathe" haʻi "to say"; haʻihaʻi "to speak back and forth" maʻi "sick"; maʻimaʻi "chronically sick"