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Reduplication can convey emphasis or repetition, for example mate "die", matemate "die in numbers"; and de-emphasis, for example wera "hot" and werawera "warm". Reduplication can also extend the meaning of a word; for instance paki "pat" becomes papaki "slap or clap once" and pakipaki "applaud"; kimo "blink" becomes kikimo "close eyes firmly"
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 ...
Malay is an agglutinative language, and new words are formed by three methods.New words can be created by attaching affixes onto a root word (), formation of a compound word (composition), or repetition of words or portions of words (reduplication).
Reduplication is a major feature of Kosraean. Lee (1975), states that there are two types of reduplication: complete reduplication, when an entire word is repeated, and partial reduplication, when only part of the word is repeated. Reduplication in Kosraean uses two distinct morphemes: a prefix and a suffix. [8]
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Ablaut reduplication, or ablaut-motivated compounding, is a type of word formation of "expressives" (such as onomatopoeia or ideophones), ...
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