Reiteration may be either total or partial: it is total if it involves the repetition of the whole semantic-syntactic or of the whole phonetic-phonological string whose meaning is correspondingly changed; and it is partial if it involves the reiteration of only part of the semantic-syntactic or phonetic-phonological constituent whose meaning is accordingly modified. Partial reduplicative constructions fall into further logically possible subtypes, depending on how the particular subpart to be reduplicated is defined.
- Moravcsik (2004), a pag.314