Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Réunion Creole French (rcf) Family/Group  Creole, French-based Area  Africa General Data  spoken in Réunion Reduplication Form-Function  • full: word class derivation, intensification, pluralization, diminution Relationship Form-Function  one form - various functions Reduplication System  the formation process of reduplication in Réunion Creole seems to be restricted to monosyllabics and to bisyllabics at the most, the only occurrences of trisyllabic reduplication being directly relatable to Malagasy (cf. Daval-Markussen 2009: 5) Productivity  from the description in Daval-Markussen (2009) the following scale of productivity (decreasing from left to right) in Réunion Creole can be inferred: verbal reduplication > adverbial reduplication > adjectival reduplication > nominal reduplication (if the latter is indeed existent at all; see Daval-Markussen 2009: 10-11) Forms  Select Valueword   Functions  Select Valuediminution intensification pluralization word class derivation Patterns  Select Valuefull Semantics  Select Valuediminuity intensity other plurality   Word Classes  Select Valueadjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — adjective/adverb pronoun — pronoun verb — adjective/adverb verb — noun verb — verb   All Examples  ⊞ References    Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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