Value Attenuating and word-class-changing function

Language:
Saramaccan
Parameter:
Functions of reduplication
References
Bakker 2003

Examples

  1. wɛti-wɛti
    wɛti~wɛti
    white.red
    whitish

    See Bakker 2003: 76

  2. A ta waka hesi-hesi.
    A
    3sg
    ta
    asp
    waka
    walk
    hesi~hesi.
    fast.red
    He walks fast.

    See Bakker 2003: 76

  3. Dí wómi de síki-síki.
    Dí
    def.sg
    wómi
    man
    de
    be
    síki~síki.
    sick.red
    The man is in a bad/weak health.

    See Veenstra 1996: 20