Reduplication

[Anvita Abbi]

Dear Scott,
Base reduplication for diminutives or for approximation of taste and color
adjectives is common in most of the Indo-Aryan languages , e.g.
*hari '*green'* *but *hari hari *'greenish' or
*karwa *'bitter' but *karwa karwa *'somewhat bitter' in Hindi.
Munda languages such as Kharia also have similar structures, e.g.
*goej*  'dead' but *goej goej* 'dead-like'.
Kurux, a North Dravidian language shares the structure with Hindi because
of contact with IA languages.
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.
For details see *Reduplication in South Asian languages. An areal,
typological and historical study *(1991) by Anvita Abbi.. Allied Publishers.
Anvita


On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Scott T. Shell <ay2493 at wayne.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking for languages that reduplicate base forms to create
> diminutives.
>
> An example from Bamyili Creole:
>
> bragbrag        'froggy'          pəpəp         'puppy'
> daŋgidaŋgi      'donkey'          daldal        'dollie'
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott T. Shell
> Graduate Student, Wayne State University
>



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