The Semantic Structure of Verbal Reduplication: A Case Study of Reduplication in Amharic, Hindi, Malay, Salish and Siroi

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...

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Main Author: Idris, Abdul Aziz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1981-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/552