Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Chukchi (ckt) Alternative Names  Chukot, Chukcha, Chuchee, Chukchee, Luoravetlan Family/Group  Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Northern Area  Eurasia General Data  spoken on the Chukchi peninsula, Chukot and Koryak National Okrug in northeastern Siberia Typological Information  • epenthetic schwas to produce well-formed words according to the syllable structure (C)V(C) • vowel harmony • no dominant word order • incorporation • ergative-absolutive system • phonological and lexical differences in the speech of men and women (see Dunn 1999: 25-32) Reduplication Form-Function  • full: case inflection • partial: case inflection Relationship Form-Function  various forms - one function Reduplication System  form of reduplication depends on form of the stem Productivity  according to Dunn (1999: 107) reduplication may be or may recently have been a productive process in Chukchi while Kämpfe & Volodin (1995: 30) estimate the number of reduplicative forms in the language to be around 100 to 150 Forms  Select Valueσ stem   Functions  Select Valuelexical enrichment other Patterns  Select Valuefull partial Semantics  Select Valueother   Word Classes  Select Value0 — noun noun — noun   All Examples  ⊞ References    Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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