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Lemma  reduplication 
Categoria grammaticale 
Lingua  inglese 
Opera  Sapir (1921) 
Sinonimi   
Rinvii  concept (inglese)
consonantal change (inglese)
radical element (inglese)
sound-imitative word (inglese)
vocalic change (inglese)
vowel (inglese)
word (inglese)  
Traduzioni   
Citazioni 

Nothing is more natural than the prevalence of reduplication [...], the repetition of all or part of the radical element. The process is generally employed, with self-evident symbolism, to indicate such concepts as distribution, plurality, repetition, customary activity, increase of size, added intensity, continuance.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.76

The most characteristic examples of reduplication are such as repeat only part of the radical element. It would be possible to demonstrate the existence of a vast number of formal types of [...] partial duplication [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.77

[...] partial duplication has taken on in many languages function that seems in no way related to the idea of increase. The best known examples are probably the initial reduplication of our older Indo-European languages, which helps to form the perfect tense of many verbs [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.78

 
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