Re: OT: Reduplication enquiry

Pavel,

I didn't think that I had anything to contribute in answer to your enquiry,
but it occurred to me a couple of days ago that I had seen some
reduplication with interesting phonological goings-on in one of the
excercises from _Phonology in Generative Grammar_ by Michael
Kentstowicz.  The language in question is Klamath, an American Indian
language from Oregon.  The reference given is

Barker, M. A. R. 1964.  Klamath Grammar.  Berkely: University of California
Press.

The initial syllable is reduplicated and a suffix is added to the word (and
there is syncope of a short medial vowel), in the formation of
diminutives.  If you would like, I can attempt to type in the 8 examples
given in the excercize.

Isidora

At 10:12 PM 9/9/03 +0400, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm in the process of choosing what to do as my year paper, and a nice
>topic has cropped up, offered by my tutor with whom I did the Tundra
>Nenets fieldwork. He suggests I treat on formal (phonological,
>morphological rather than semantic) aspects of reduplication in any
>language (in an Optimality Theory or similar framework), so I need a
>relatively well-described language with some nice reduplicaions (not of
>the Indonesian type, I mean, rather of the Latin, but hopefully more
>complex). Does anyone know what languages have nice, devilishly complex
>:-) reduplications, and preferably have them nicely described? Also
>remember I'm in Russia, so if a book is newer than 1996 or thereabouts,
>it's in all probability not in our libraries... :-(
>
>Thank you, folks.
>
>Pavel
>--
>Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru
>
>Nid byd, byd heb wybodaeth
>                  --Welsh saying

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