<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><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;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>-- <br><div>Prof. Anvita Abbi</div>
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