Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Papiamentu (pap) Alternative Names  Papiam, Papiamen, Curaçoleño, Curassese Family/Group  Creole, Iberian-based Area  South America General Data  spoken on the Netherlans Antilles Typological Information  postnominal modifiers Reduplication Form-Function  full (intensive; iterative; distributive; lexicalized) Relationship Form-Function  one form - various functions Productivity  • Occurrence of productive grammatical reduplication (intensification, distribution) and (semi-)lexicalized forms. • Reduplication involves always full copying; there are only few lexicalized forms of reduced reduplication (karamèlè "caramel" --> mèlè-mèlè "sticky"; kishiki "to itch" --> kishikishi "itching sensation"); cf. Kouwenberg 2003: 164. Stylistic Information  Reduplication is a rather infrequent phenomenon in Papiamentu texts, apart from semi-lexicalized forms (cf. Kouwenberg 2003: 161). Forms  Select Valuestem   Functions  Select Valueintensification lexical enrichment pluralization word class derivation Patterns  Select Valuefull Semantics  Select Valueintensity other plurality   Word Classes  Select Valueadjective/adverb — adjective/adverb adjective/adverb — noun noun — adjective/adverb noun — noun verb — noun verb — verb   All Examples  ⊟ References Kouwenberg, Silvia, Eric Murray 1994. Papiamentu. München - Newcastle: Lincom Europa; (relevant pages: 21)  Kouwenberg, Silvia 2003. "Papiamentu reduplication". In: Kouwenberg, Silvia, eds., Twice as Meaningful: Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and Other Contact Languages, London: Battlebridge Publications     Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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