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 
  Functions 
Patterns 
Semantics 
  Word Classes  Word Class of Simplex Form — Word Class of Reduplicant
  All Examples 
⊟ References
Dunn, Michael John 1999. A Grammar of ChukchiCanberra: The Australian National University; (relevant pages: 28; 33; 48-49; 105-110) 
Kämpfe, Hans-Rainer, Alexander P. Volodin 1995. Abriß der Tschuktschischen Grammatik auf der Basis der Schriftsprache. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; (relevant pages: 29-30) 
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