Reduplicative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Reduplicative is an adjective meaning Formed by redoubling; reduplicate, double.
Meaning
Formed by redoubling; reduplicate, double.
More Meanings
- (grammar) A word obtained by the process of reduplication.
Example Sentences
A hyphen (-) is generally used to indicate the boundary between the components of ordinary and reduplicative compounds in derivational morphology.
The loss of the reduplicative syllable in the perfect is sufficiently accounted for by the same occurrence in almost all the modern, and even some of the ancient branches of the Indo-Germanic family.
Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech; in contrast, in English reduplicatives are much less frequent and often involve phoneme modulation (ding-dong; wham-bam).
Word Forms
- reduplicatives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include affix, paramnesia, reduplicate, twofold, doublesome, conduplicate.
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