reduplication

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Randy,

For what it is worth, here is what I have written in my draft grammar of
Catawba about reduplication in that language. (Sb after a gloss means the form
comes from Frank T. Siebert's notes.)

Blair

3.1.1.2 Reduplicated Stems.     A root morpheme, in particular a verb root,
may be repeated to form a stem that expresses continued or sustained action in
space or time, or intensive or distributive notions. In Catawba, the repeated
form of the root is identical in phonemic structure to the base root, that it,
there is no reduction or other phonological change in the shape of the root.
Reduplication takes place before stress-assignment (section 2.1.3). Examples
of inflected reduplicated stems and their inflected, un-reduplicated
counterparts are the following.

búu?hiree           'it sparks, flashes; he shoots (a gun)' (Sb)
buu?búu?hiree       'it sparkles' (Sb)

c^é?hiree           'it strikes causing a sound, makes a sound by striking'
(Sb)
ce^?c^é?hiree       'it ticks (as a clock), makes a ticking sound' (Sb)

c^úu?hiree          'he chops, gives a chop or a peck' (Sb)
c^uu?c^úu?hiree     'he pecks (as a woodpecker)' (Sb)

haamúN?haree        'he breathes' (Sb)
haamuN?haamúN?haree 'he pants, breathes rapidly' (Sb)

káa?hiree           'he hits, strikes' (Sb)
kaa?káa?hiree       'he beats, strikes over and over' (Sb)

tí?hiree            'he crushes, compresses, presses down' (Sb)
ti?tí?hiree     'he pounds, mashes to bits' (Sb)

wáN?hiree           'he jumps, leaps, gives a jump' (Sb)
waN?wáN?hiree       'he hops, keeps jumping' (Sb)