<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>Von: </b>"So Miyagawa" <runa.uei@gmail.com><br><b>An: </b>"ay2493@WAYNE.EDU" <ay2493@wayne.edu><br><b>Gesendet: </b>Dienstag, 5. März 2013 02:17:19<br><b>Betreff: </b>On Diminutive Reduplication<br><br><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:">Hello, Scott, <span></span>I would like to reply your main on linguist list, but I can't. So could you send the forward of this mail to the Linguistlist?<span></span></span></font><div>
<font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:">I know some dimunitive reduplications in Tagalog. (Because I wrote my thesis on Reduplication in Tagalog)</span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:">For example,</span></font></div><div>
<font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:"><br></span></font></div><div><font style="line-height:normal;background-color:"><i>ma-sarap~sarap</i> "rather tasty"; <i>ma-linis~linis</i>"rather clean"; <i>ma-sali~salita</i> "rather talkative";<i>ma-ganda~ganda</i> "rather beautiful"....etc.</font></div>
<div><font style="line-height:normal;background-color:"><br></font></div><div><font style="line-height:normal;background-color:">These are all bisyllabic reduplication.</font></div><div>
<font style="line-height:normal;background-color:">And the language in which I am majoring now, Maori.</font></div><div><font style="line-height:normal;background-color:"><br></font></div>
<div><font style="line-height:normal;background-color:">Maa-roo~roo'somewhat hard'</font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:">I remember Fisher(2011) says diminutive reduplication come from baby talk.<br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:"><font>O. Fischer (2011). Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language. In P. Michelucci, O. Fischer & C. Ljungberg (Eds.), <i>Semblance and signification</i> (Iconicity in language and literature, 10) (pp. 55-81). Amsterdam: Benjamins.</font><br>
</span></font></div><div><font style="line-height:normal;background-color:"><br></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:">And further example , see Graz Database on Reduplication <span style="text-align:left"><a href="http://reduplication.uni-graz.at/redup/" target="_blank">http://reduplication.uni-graz.at/redup/</a></span></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><span style="text-align:left;line-height:normal;background-color:"><font><br></font></span></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><span style="text-align:left;line-height:normal;background-color:"><font>Thank you,</font></span></div>
<div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><span style="text-align:left;line-height:normal;background-color:"><font><br></font></span></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><span style="text-align:left;line-height:normal;background-color:"><font>So Miyagawa</font></span></div>
<div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><span style="text-align:left;line-height:normal;background-color:"><font>Te Reo Maori and Linguistic Typology</font></span></div>
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