The Semantic Structure of Verbal Reduplication

A Case Study of Reduplication in Amharic, Hindi, Malay, Salish and Siroi

Authors

  • Abdul Aziz Idris

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.552

Keywords:

Amharic language-- Verb, Amharic language, Hindi language, Salish language, Siroi language, Grammar, Comparative and general-- Reduplication, Malay language

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the various semantic properties of verbal reduplication in five languages, namely: Amharic, Hindi, Malay, Salish Dialects and Siroi using Chafe's model as proposed and developed in his Meaning and the Structure of Language (1970). In consideration of the "naturalness" of reduplication, it is hypothesized that the semantic properties of this process may be generalized into a set of universal semantic properties, within which all the reduplicative functions in any given language may be categorized.

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How to Cite

Idris, . A. A. (1981). The Semantic Structure of Verbal Reduplication: A Case Study of Reduplication in Amharic, Hindi, Malay, Salish and Siroi. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 6, 17-41. https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.552