The terms "reduplication" and "reduplicative construction" are of course infelicitous, since they make vague reference to there being only two copies of the same thing in the construction in question. A more properly suggestive term would be "reiteration" or repetitive construction.
- Moravcsik (2004), Pag. 336

Utterance 1: ...A...=...X...; Utterance 2: ...B...=...Y... where A and B are non-null interpretable semantic representations that have some elements in common, X and Y are non-null syntactic, phonological, or phonetic representations, the equation sign stands for symbolic equivalence; and where Y either properly or improperly includes all of X, and a proper or improper part of X repeated n times, but B does not include a matching reduplication of A. [...] I take this schema to semi-formally define the familiar linguistic concept of reduplication, wit a reduplicative construction being what is represented above as Utterance 2.
- Moravcsik (2004), Pag. 311