<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16788" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear John,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>what exactly do you mean by "reduplication system"?
I'm aware of many languages having reduplication in their paradigms (e.g. the
perfect tense in Classical Greek --</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>which later went lost in Byzantine and Modern
Greek). But can we consider Greek as a reduplication system
language? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Prof. Paolo Ramat<BR>Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori
(IUSS)<BR>Responsabile della classe di Scienze Umane<BR>V.le Lungo Ticino Sforza
56, 27100 Pavia – Italia<BR>Tel. +39 0382 375811 Fax +39 0382 375899 </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jhobartkyle@gmail.com href="mailto:jhobartkyle@gmail.com">John
Kyle</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=Histling-l@mailman.rice.edu
href="mailto:Histling-l@mailman.rice.edu">Histling-l@mailman.rice.edu</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:17
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Histling-l] development of
reduplication systems</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I was wondering if anyone had any examples of languages which have
developed a reduplication system when the parent language didn't have a
reduplication system. I've seen examples of languages which have lost
reduplication (and of course languages which have retained a reduplication
system) but I have not been able to find any examples of a reduplication
system which developed on its own. If anyone could let me know of any
references or examples, I would gladly post a follow-up with the
information. Thank you.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>John Kyle</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:jhobartkyle@gmail.com">jhobartkyle@gmail.com</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<P>
<HR>
<P></P>_______________________________________________<BR>Histling-l mailing
list<BR>Histling-l@mailman.rice.edu<BR>https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>