Partial bimodal reduplication involves the repetition of a syntactic constituent or phonetic string which is only part of the constituent whose meaning is accordingly modified; such that the specification of the process requires reference both to semantic-syntactic and to phonetic-phonological properties. One subtype of this pattern involves reduplicating a constituent that is specified in terms of specific semantic-syntactic constants and by variable reference to phonological form necessitated by the [...] lexical identity condition. [...] Another subtype of partial modal reduplication involves reduplicating a phonetic string that is a proper part of the phonetic string whose meaning is effected by the reduplication, such that reference is made to the particular meaning and the process is subject to the lexical identity condition.
- Moravcsik (2004), a pag.316-317