Re: THEORY: Uses of reduplication

In a message dated 3/2/2008 06:59:58 AM Central Standard Time,
caeruleancentaur@YAHOO.COM writes:


> The Wikipedia entry on reduplication is quite extensive!  It does not
> mention, however, it's use in Spanish as an intensive/continuative,
> perhaps because it is colloquial or regional.  The Mexicans
> hereabouts use it frequently.  It often has a negative feeling about
> it.
>
> Ella llora, llora, llora.
> She kept on crying and wouldn't stop.
>
> Charlie
>
Is that even reduplication?  It seems to me to be mere repetition.

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