Explore: Reduplication

Partial reduplication involves a reduplication of only part of the word. For example, Marshallese forms words meaning 'to wear X' by reduplicating the last

Shm-reduplication or schm-reduplication is a form of reduplication originating in Yiddish in which the original word or its first syllable (the base) is

perfect do not reduplicate, whereas a handful of irregular aorists reduplicate.) The three types of reduplication are: Syllabic reduplication: Most verbs

fixed segmentism Reduplicative infixes Suffixal syllable reduplication Other less common patterns are (Blust 2009): Vacuous reduplication (occurs in Paamese)

to leave out reduplication, which means that the phenomenon is more widespread in older generations. Ungrammaticality in reduplication of afaa 'to start

reported by Benson and colleagues. Benson not only described striking reduplication syndromes in his patients, but also attempted to explain the phenomena

not examples of reduplication as it works in the grammar of Russian. There is virtually no productive syllabic or root/stem reduplication in the modern

total reduplication (or full reduplication). The repetition of a segment is referred to as partial reduplication. Reduplication can serve both derivational

Contrastive focus reduplication, also called contrastive reduplication, identical constituent compounding, lexical cloning, or the double construction

by sound. There are several kinds of exponents: Identity Affixation Reduplication Internal modification Subtraction The identity exponent is both simple