<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>That Iroquoian makes no grammatical use of reduplication seemed evident from
<BR>the grammars and dictionaries I've seen. I also didn't get the impression,
<BR>from Mithun's article on Iroquoian expressives, that these undergo
<BR>reduplication either, merely simple full-stress repetition (which seems to be
<BR>rather common in polysynthetic languages when they have any expressive forms
<BR>at all outside the verb inventory).
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<BR>As there appears to be an implicational hierarchy extending from the point of
<BR>lexicalization of expressive/ideophonic forms all the way to grammatical
<BR>elements with regard to the how's, where's, etc. of reduplication, it will be
<BR>interesting to see just how much of this correlates with typological factors
<BR>that on the face of it would seem to have no logical connection- I've already
<BR>noted a number linking expressives.
<BR>Much may fall under the heading of "holistic typology". Over time one would
<BR>then expect to see increasing context-sensitivity as reduplicative
<BR>constructions themselves become frozen, and attrition works its magic.
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<BR>Siouan, under this model, would be far along the way of losing both
<BR>expressives (as such) and reduplication.
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<BR>Jess Tauber
<BR>zylogy@aol.com</FONT></HTML>