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

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 26/10/99 18:59:15  , Paul a =E9crit :

> OFF: How real do other people find the "dilingo effect" to be?  How linked=
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> it
>  to Sapir-Whorf?  Is there anything else that produces it as consistently?
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>  http://www.dilingo.com/
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.

for instance, full reduplication is consistently used in japanese, indonesia=
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and
khmer to show :
- plural
- frequency, duration
- mimicry, identity
- intensity

the interesting thing is that depending on the meaning of the reduplicated
word, you hardly fail guessing what reduplication means. i'm sure you would
guess what these mean :

girl-girl
hard-hard
to run-run
to hit-hit
to visit-visit
to be girl-girl

mathias