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--- en:grammar:reduplication [2022-09-19 17:33] – [Making adverbs from prepositions] New example for 'ku' christian
+++ en:grammar:reduplication [2023-01-21 09:57] – [Reduplication for intensity and long duration] Add rationale christian
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 If other verbs are reduplicated, this indicates an activity going on for a long time:
-**Ya li nulis nulis [until] nait wan.** – He/She wrote and wrote until late at night.
+**Ya li nulis nulis [until] nait van.** – He/She wrote and wrote until late at night.
+//Rationale:// According to WALS (ch. 27), most languages use reduplication for some semantic or grammatical purposes. WALS doesn't include a detailed study of what these purposes are, but according to APiCs (ch. 26), pidgins and creole languages most typically use it for iconic functions such as intensity (making a quality stronger) or iteration (indicating that a action takes place repeatedly or for a long time). We use it for these purposes as well. Cases of reduplication changing a word class occurs less frequently, but this is still the second most common function. We use it for this purpose too (see the next section).
 ===== Making adverbs from prepositions =====
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 Example:
-**Wanita li go gen man.** – The woman went with the man.\\
+**Ona li go gen man.** – The woman went with the man.\\
-**Wanita wa man li go gengen.** – The woman and the man went together.
+**Ona va man li go gengen.** – The woman and the man went together.
 Reduplication is only used with short prepositions that have just a single syllable. With longer prepositions, the result of reduplication would be a bit heavy (four syllables or more). Therefore **ku** is used to derive adverbs from prepositions with two or more syllables (just as from adjectives).