<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>hello,<br><br></div><div>Reduplication is common in Austronesian languages, with a variety of meanings.<br></div><div>One of these meanings (albeit a rare one, and non-productive) is diminutive. <br>
</div><div><br>e.g. West Tarangan (Maluku, Indonesia): <i>seldi</i> 'shrimp' => <i>sel</i><i>sel</i><i>di</i> 'small shrimp' (Nivens 1993: 384)<br></div><div><br> Manam (Oceanic, PNG): <i>moata</i> 'snake' => <i>moata-moata</i> 'worm' (Lichtenberk 1983: 611)<br>
<br> Mwotlap (Oceanic, Vanuatu): <i>ēy</i> 'lobster' => <i>ēy</i><i>ēy</i> 'shrimp' (François 2004: 181)<br> <i>qol</i> 'surgeonfish, larger variety' => <i>qolqol</i> 'surgeonfish, smaller variety' <br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I mentioned these examples in my discussion of reduplication and its polysemy in the language Mwotlap. <div>Reduplication is there only fully productive for verbs and adjectives; for nouns, it is a process of lexical derivation, which only affects some lexemes.<br>
</div>Its semantics include (on nouns) diminutive, qualitative, plural, and (on verbs) pluractional, distributive, intensive, atelic, intensional, infinitive, etc. I tentatively proposed the notion of "fragmentation" as a way to capture reduplication's core underlying meaning in this language.<br>
<br><div style="margin-left:40px">François, Alexandre. 2004. <a href="http://alex.francois.free.fr/data/AlexFrancois_2004_Reduplication_Mwotlap.pdf" target="_blank">La réduplication en mwotlap : les paradoxes du fractionnement</a>. In Elizabeth Zeitoun (ed.), <i><a href="http://fdl.univ-lemans.fr/fr/liste-des-numeros/n23_24.html" class="" target="_blank">Les langues austronésiennes</a>. </i>Special issue of <i>Faits de langues</i> n°24: 177-195.<br>
</div><br>Incidentally, Mwotlap does not use reduplication for hypocoristic functions. The diminutive meaning is thus here "pure", i.e. not contaminated by any affective meaning such as expressivity, endearment or familiarity — a situation Paul suggested should be “difficult, perhaps impossible” to find. <br>
</div><br></div><div>best,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Alex<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">********<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/3/3 Anvita Abbi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anvitaabbi@gmail.com" target="_blank">anvitaabbi@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Dear Scott,</font></font><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Base reduplication for diminutives or for approximation of taste and color adjectives is common in most of the Indo-Aryan languages , e.g. </font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><i>hari '</i>green'<i> </i>but <i>hari hari </i>'greenish' or </font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><i>karwa </i>'bitter' but <i>karwa karwa </i>'somewhat bitter' in Hindi. </font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Munda languages such as Kharia also have similar structures, e.g. </font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><i>goej</i> </font></font>'dead' but <i>goej goej</i> 'dead-like'. </div>
<div>Kurux, a North Dravidian language shares the structure with Hindi because of contact with IA languages.</div><div>Austroasiatic languages such as Khasi is very rich in expressive morphology to indicate diminutive meaning but the non reduplicated part can not be considered a base as it has no meaning of its own.</div>
<div>For details see <i>Reduplication in South Asian languages. An areal, typological and historical study </i>(1991) by Anvita Abbi.. Allied Publishers.</div><div>Anvita </div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="h5"><br>
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On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Scott T. Shell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ay2493@wayne.edu" target="_blank">ay2493@wayne.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Hello all,<br>
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I'm looking for languages that reduplicate base forms to create diminutives.<br>
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An example from Bamyili Creole:<br>
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bragbrag 'froggy' pəpəp 'puppy'<br>
daŋgidaŋgi 'donkey' daldal 'dollie'<br>
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Can anyone else help add to this list? It is important that the reduplication process carries no grammatical information. Also, I must point out that I am not looking for partial base reduplication. It must be the entire base.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Scott T. Shell<br>
Graduate Student, Wayne State University<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><span class=""><font color="#888888">-- <br><div>Prof. Anvita Abbi</div>
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