Fwd: On Diminutive Reduplication

[Scott T. Shell]

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Von: "So Miyagawa" <runa.uei at gmail.com> 
An: "ay2493 at WAYNE.EDU" <ay2493 at wayne.edu> 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. März 2013 02:17:19 
Betreff: On Diminutive Reduplication 

Hello, Scott, 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? 


I know some dimunitive reduplications in Tagalog. (Because I wrote my thesis on Reduplication in Tagalog) 


For example, 


ma-sarap~sarap "rather tasty"; ma-linis~linis "rather clean"; ma-sali~salita "rather talkative"; ma-ganda~ganda "rather beautiful"....etc. 


These are all bisyllabic reduplication. 
And the language in which I am majoring now, Maori. 


Maa-roo~roo'somewhat hard' 


I remember Fisher(2011) says diminutive reduplication come from baby talk. 

O. Fischer (2011). Cognitive iconic grounding of reduplication in language. In P. Michelucci, O. Fischer & C. Ljungberg (Eds.), Semblance and signification (Iconicity in language and literature, 10) (pp. 55-81). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 



And further example , see Graz Database on Reduplication http://reduplication.uni-graz.at/redup/ 


Thank you, 


So Miyagawa 
Te Reo Maori and Linguistic Typology 
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