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Example 3-31
Dí wómi de síki-síki.
Dí
def
.
sg
wómi
man
de
be
síki~síki.
sick.
red
The man is in a bad/weak health.
Comment:
Reduplication here has a category-changing function.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 20
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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