Citations:duplifix


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- Here is a generalization highlighting common patterns: GEN-9: Frequent forms of duplifixes are a C, a syllable, or two syllables.


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- In most cases, the duplifix is adjacent to the part of the base that is duplicated. GEN-10: Duplifixes are in most cases strictly ordered relative to the base. They may be prefixed, suffixed, or infixed; but in each case, they are adjacent to the portion of the base that they duplicate.


 * tersubsection (B): Crosslinguistically recurrent semantic properties of reduplication, page 129:
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- As noted above, in Western languages, reduplication generally involves emphasis or increased quality, as in very very and old old. But duplifixes can have other meanings as well. The semantic contributions that they make to the base fit into two board types: plurality of entities, continuation of action, or intensification of properties on the one hand, and diminution of entities or attenuation of properties on the other.


 * 〃, section 3: «Root and word classes», subsection 5: ‘Affects/expressives’, page 218:
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 * 〃, section 3: «Root and word classes», subsection 5: ‘Affects/expressives’, page 218:
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- Inflected expressives may function as main predicates. They are typically words derived from expressive roots or from roots of other categories (mainly positional or transitive) with a dedicated expressive morphology which often includes reduplication (especially duplifixes). In some languages, they are a kind of verb and differ from other verbs only through their expressive semantic and their dedicated derivational morphology. This is the case of Kʼicheeʼ (Baronti 2001), as in (18), where the expressive verb pun-upup is derived from the root pun trough [sic] the expressive duplifix -V₁C₁V₁C₁. Note that its inflection is that of a normal intransitive verb (perfective prefix x-).