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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 ...
Binilí ng lalaki ang saging sa tindahan para sa unggóy. The man bought the banana at the store for the monkey. The locative trigger marks the direct noun as the location or direction of an action or the area affected by the action. The man bought a banana at/from the store. Binilhán ng lalaki ng saging ang tindahan. (formal/dated form)
Reduplication is commonly used to emphasize plurality. However, reduplication has many other functions. For example, orang-orang means "(all the) people", but orang-orangan means "scarecrow". Similarly, while hati means "heart" or "liver", hati-hati is a verb meaning "to be careful".
May EXIST idô dog (a)ko 1SG May idô (a)ko EXIST dog 1SG I have a dog. Hiligaynon linkers When an adjective modifies a noun, the linker nga links the two. Example: Ido nga itom 'black dog' Sometimes, if the linker is preceded by a word that ends in a vowel, glottal stop or the letter N, it becomes acceptable to contract it into -ng, as in Filipino. This is often used to make the words sound ...
Contrastive focus reduplication has been called by various names in English. Early work on the construction referred to it as double or lexical cloning due to its superficial characteristics. Theoretical differences in the approach to the construction result in different nomenclatures, as there are theoretical assumptions which underlie any ...
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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]
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