Sentence examples for reduplication from inspiring English sources

This has been renamed reduplicative paramnesia or simply reduplication.

The whole noun-epithet system is both extensive and economical it covers a great variety of subjects with very little exact reduplication or unnecessary overlap.

Reduplication, the repetition of words or syllables to create new or emphatic meanings, is common (e.g., pakapaka 'suddenly bursting out laughing,' garagara 'clean, neat, nice').

Reduplication is frequently used, generally as a modification of intensity.

This basic aspect, however, could be reversed by morphological devices such as ablaut, suffixation, and reduplication.

The stative aspect was normally marked by reduplication and the 0-grade of the root in the indicative singular; it had personal endings that were partly distinct from those of the other two aspects.

The desiderative also has an agent noun in -u: dī-dṛk-ṣ-u 'who wishes to see.' The intensive generally involves reduplication, with a suffix -ya- and medial inflection e.g., pā-pac-ya-te 'cooks repeatedly, cooks intently.' Classical Sanskrit represents a development of one or more such early Old Indo-Aryan dialects.

Reduplication is observed mainly among acutely confused or severely amnesic people; for example, a patient may say that he has been in one or more hospitals that are very similar to his present location and that all bear the same name.

Both tautologies – known in the puffed-up jargon of linguistics as "contrastive focus reduplications" – have a precise meaning.

Second, we have two important reduplications.

Intensive adjectives are formed with reduplication e.g., Turkish kap-kara 'quite black' (kara 'black'black