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Example 29-39
Lappe-lappe staan onder water.
Lappe~lappe
patch.
pl
~patch.
pl
staan
stand
onder
under
water.
water
Quite a few patches are under water.
Comment:
Another common instance of this distributive usage is
plek-plek
(standardly used in weather forcecasts) - e.g.
Dit ryp vanaand plek-plek
('It frosts tonight place-place, i.e. there will be sporadic frost tonight').
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Besten et al. 2003
: 274
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Functions of reduplication: Attenuating and word-class-changing function
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