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--- en:grammar:reduplication [2022-11-14 22:01] – w -> v, wanita -> ona christian
+++ en:grammar:reduplication [2023-01-21 09:57] – [Reduplication for intensity and long duration] Add rationale christian
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 **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 =====