Re: Re : Re: Conculturish question Re: OFF : updated tunu grammar

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html w=
rote:

> Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 26/10/99 18:59:15  , Paul a =E9crit :
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> > OFF: How real do other people find the "dilingo effect" to be?  How lin=
ked=20
> is=20
> > it
> >  to Sapir-Whorf?  Is there anything else that produces it as consistent=
ly?
> > =20
> >  http://www.dilingo.com/
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> reduplication - whether full or partial - has been a natural feature of
> sumerian and is still in all austronesian, chinese, malayo-polynesian
> and many african languages.
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And Denden of course ;-). Reduplication is used for plurals, habitual
aspect and exemplars. Denden is a language's language - see, English
nearly reduplicates, too.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt