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Example 3-30
A ta waka hesi-hesi.
A
3sg
ta
asp
waka
walk
hesi~hesi.
fast.
red
He walks fast.
Comment:
Reduplication here has an iconic function.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bakker 2003
: 76
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Functions of reduplication: Attenuating and word-class-changing function
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