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Example 8-34

buk-buk

buk-buk

book-book

(several) books (more than two)

Type:: elicited from speaker
Source:: Kouwenberg et al. 2003: 107

Language:

Jamaican by Joseph T. Farquharson

Datapoints:

Expression of nominal plural meaning: Plural reduplication
Functions of reduplication: Attenuating and word-class-changing function

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