Value Only iconic functions

Language:
Tok Pisin
Parameter:
Functions of reduplication

Examples

  1. Tasol mi painim painim, nogat.
    Tasol
    but
    mi
    1sg
    painim~painim,
    search~search
    nogat.
    nothing
    I kept searching but in vain.

    See Verhaar 1995: 332

  2. Ston i tantanim i kam daun.
    ston
    stone
    i
    pm
    tan~tanim
    iter~turn
    i
    pm
    kam
    come
    daun
    down
    The stone rolled down.

    See Mihalic 1971: 192

  3. Ol i kam tupela tupela.
    Ol
    3pl
    i
    pm
    kam
    come
    tu-pela~tu-pela.
    two-mod~two-mod
    They came two by two.