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Reduplication

in linguistics, complete or partial repetition of a root, stem, or word. Reduplication may express plurality, as in the Malay orang (“person”) and orangorang (“people”). It may be used to intensify an action or quality, as in the Russian khodish’-khodish’ (“you walk and walk”) and bol’shoi-bol’shoi (“very big”). Sometimes an adjective formed by reduplication expresses a lesser degree of a quality, as exemplified by the Malagasy fotsi-fotsi (“whitish”). Reduplication may also express different aspectual and other meanings in a verb. In the Indo-European languages, there is partial reduplication in the formation of the perfect and present. Reduplication is also used in onomatopoeic expressions, such as the Russian ku-ku (the call of the cuckoo) and the English “tick-tick.”

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Okolo and Ezikeojiaku (1999) group this and clipping as a form of word formation under reduplication. They see it as the opposite of derivation and compounding as words undergo deaffixation.

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Partial reduplication: the Australian language, Yidin: 'initiated man' = 'mulari'; 'initiated men' = 'mula-mula.ri' (Kager, 196).

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As is seen in Table 5, the results showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the whole Description Skill Scoring Rubric as well as the concretization, reduplication, simile and adjective criteria.

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Fifth, reduplication of the intensifier muy is normally used as a device to express extreme degree in StSp (Roca & Suner 1998) (cf.

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There is marked, diffuse thickening of the glomerular capillary walls with reduplication of the basal lamina (mesangial interposition), which can lead to narrowing of the capillary lumens (Figures 3 and 4).

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More importantly, Effer (1884:196) considers the instances where there is no consonant reduplication after a short vowel as lengthened forms, either due to Hornorganic Cluster Lengthening (HCL) or Open Syllable Lengthening (OSL).

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As for the morphological structure of such items, a range of possibilities appears to be viable: for instance, gabsie (= talkative person) joins a noun (gab) and a diminutive suffix with an epenthetic consonant, thus producing an almost iconic new item; grippie (= avaricious) exploits the same strategy, though the reduplication of

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Specifically, it identifies some superstrate and substrate influences on Nigerian Pidgin, as well as instances of reduplication, compounding and clipping in Nigerian Pidgin.

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