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Re: Degrees of comparation

From:Jesse Bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Thursday, September 6, 2001, 15:50
> Reduplication in Uatakassí generally conveys both of these, that is, > ziikú "beautiful", ziikuziikú "extremely beautiful" OR "too > beautiful", > depending on context. > > But, there are some words that are often reduplicated with no > significance at all, particularly monosyllabic adjectives, for
instance,
> _tiá_ "learned", _tiatiá_ "learned", NOT "extremely learned" or "too > learned". Color terms are often like that, like the (slightly > irregular) mlallál < mlál "blue". The _m_ was dropped because /lml/ is > a bit of a tongue-twisting combination. :-)
Eh, why? Just for fun? Linguistic perversity? Jesse S. Bangs Pelíran jaspax@ juno.com "There is enough light for those that desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition." --Blaise Pascal

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