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Phonetic reduplication in Tamil in the context of expressivity
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SYSNO ASEP 0318490 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Phonetic reduplication in Tamil in the context of expressivity Title Fonetická reduplikace v tamilštině v kontextu expresivity Author(s) Hons, Pavel (OU-W) RID, SAI, ORCID Source Title Archiv orientální: Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies. - : Orientální ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. - ISSN 0044-8699
Roč. 76, č. 4 (2008), s. 554-556Number of pages 17 s. Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords reduplication ; Tamil ; expressivity Subject RIV AI - Linguistics CEZ AV0Z90210515 - OU-W (2005-2011) UT WOS 000269666400003 Annotation The article deals with reduplication in Tamil. First, it arranges various types of reduplication into five groups, according to one formal criterion – what is reduplicated. Then it focuses on phonetic reduplication, i.e. partial reduplication where the second word (the reduplicant) copies the phonetic structure of the base word to produce a rhyming pair. It classifies the examples of phonetic reduplication into several subgroups. The first large group contains pairs of fully lexical words, which have been put together because they sound similar and produce a rhyming pair. Here, phonetic reduplication accompanies semantic reduplication. The second large group contains pairs of words in which the second word is a bound word and has no meaning by itself. The eminent example in this category is the echo words, e.g. puli kili „tigers and so on“. These pairs usually have some emotive connotation and speakers use them to express their attitude towards something. Workplace Oriental Institute Contact Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950 Year of Publishing 2009
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