Reduplication, also known as doubling or productive repetition, involves copying either a whole or a part of a prosodic word, resulting in a shift in semantic meaning, whether compositional or idiomatic (Inkelas & Zoll 2005, Stolz 2011). Many spoken languages employ reduplication for various linguistic functions, including indicating plurality, aspect, distributivity, adverbials, adjectival intensification, and derivational morphology. For example, in Walpiri, the term kamina 'girl' is reduplicated as kamina kamina 'girls,' while in French Creole, salé 'salty' is reduplicated as sa(lé)-...
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