development of reduplication systems

[Jeff Roesler Stebbins]

Go to Google Scholar and type "Vietnamese reduplication"--you'll see a lot about
reduplication in VNese and several related languages.  We Westerners might be prone to
focus upon the consonants, but (as you can read in some of those papers) VN's
reduplication system also interacts a lot with its tonal system, which has developed (and
is still developing) independently of neighboring Sino-Tibetan and Tai-Kadai tonal
languages.
Jeff Stebbins
Univ. Colorado, Linguistics
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  Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:05:30 +0100
  From: "Paolo Ramat" <paoram at unipv.it>
  Subject: Re: [Histling-l] development of reduplication systems
  To: "John Kyle" <jhobartkyle at gmail.com>,<Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu>

  

  Dear John,
  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 --
  which later went lost in Byzantine and Modern
  Greek). But can we consider Greek as a reduplication system
  language? 
   
   
  Prof. Paolo Ramat
  Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori
  (IUSS)
  Responsabile della classe di Scienze Umane
  V.le Lungo Ticino Sforza
  56, 27100 Pavia – Italia
  Tel. +39 0382 375811 Fax +39 0382 375899
   
   

    ----- Original Message -----
    From:
    John
    Kyle
    To: Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu
    Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:17
    PM
    Subject: [Histling-l] development of
    reduplication systems
    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.
     
    John Kyle
    jhobartkyle at gmail.com
     

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