I will first discuss various subtypes of quantity of referents. Referents may be participants of event or events themselves; the former I have found expressed by noun reduplication or by verb reduplication and the latter, by verb reduplication only. In both cases, the set of referents whose plurality is conveyed by reduplication may either be one whose members are understood not to occurr at the same place or time, but to be spatially or temporally scattered; or it may be a set where no such specification is understood.
- Moravcsik (2004), a pag.324