Re: Reduplication in Indonesian

Kelly Drinkwater wrote:
>I'm beginning the first stages of the final project for my Intro to
>Linguistics class*, and I've chosen to do something with reduplication
>in Indonesian. I have access to at least two native speakers of
>Jakarta dialect...
The best of all possible sources.

>So, I chose this topic because I remembered hearing that Indonesian's
>reduplication was interesting in various ways -- what makes it
>interesting, and especially, what hasn't been investigated into the
>ground? I've pulled up some basic resources that indicate, yes,
>Indonesian does some very neat things with reduplication, but I won't
>have read them properly until tomorrow.
Somewhere out there there's a reasonably detailed reference grammer of BI,
though I can no longer find my copy and don't recall how extensively it
dealt with redup. (probably followed the official line, anyway).  I also
recall seeing the title of at least one PhD diss. on the subject (I think by
one Joan Rosen 1970s?), and there may be others. You might also want to get
hold of a good dictionary (Echols and Shadily is bilingual, Poerwadarminta's
Kamus Umum is all-indonesian and huge) and read through it to cull out
redup. forms to check with your informants. But I'm willing to bet they will
be able to redup. almost anything ;-))))))


>
>* Yuck, MIT's intro linguistics curriculum.
>** Meaning logical-tomorrow, meaning Sunday... after all, it is 4:20am
>here.
>-Alioth