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  2. Reduplication - Wikipedia

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    Reduplication of an adjective can express different things: Adverbialisation: Jangan bicara keras-keras! = "Don't speak loudly!" (keras = hard) Plurality of the corresponding noun: Rumah di sini besar-besar = "The houses here are big" (besar = "big"). Reduplication of a verb can express various things: Simple reduplication:

  3. Tagalog grammar - Wikipedia

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    Dumatíng (has) arrived ang the lalaki. man Dumatíng ang lalaki. {(has) arrived} the man "The man arrived." ex: Nakita saw ni Juan by (the) Juan si María. (the) María Nakita {ni Juan} {si María.} saw {by (the) Juan} {(the) María} "Juan saw María." Note that in Tagalog, even proper nouns require a case marker. ex: Pupunta will go siná PL. NOM. ART Elena Elena at and Roberto Roberto sa at ...

  4. Echo word - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of reduplicated place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived.. Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of Australia, Chile and New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.

  6. List of reduplicated Australian place names - Wikipedia

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    1919 Yarram Yarram postmark – the town is now Yarram These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri. Reduplication is often used as an intensifier such as "Wagga Wagga" many crows and "Tilba Tilba" many waters. The phenomenon has been the subject of interest in popular ...

  7. Exponent (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    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)

  8. Contrastive focus reduplication - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Kaye Don - Wikipedia

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    Kaye Ernest Donsky (10 April 1891 – 29 August 1981), [1] better known by his nom de course Kaye Don, was an Irish world record breaking car and speedboat racer. He became a motorcycle dealer on his retirement from road racing and set up Ambassador Motorcycles .