Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Marshallese (mah) Alternative Names  Ebon Family/Group  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian Area  SE Asia and Oceania General Data  phonology: word final vowel shortening; "extra heavy syllables" are disallowed in word internal position; complex syllable onsets are disallowed Typological Information  Western Micronesian language rightwards derivational reduplication seems to be a feature of all nuclear Micronesian languages (cf. Harrison 1973: 438). Reduplication Form-Function  rightwards -CVC-reduplication (verb derivation; detransitivization; intensification); consonant doubling (intransitivization) Relationship Form-Function  one form - various functions Reduplication System  Byrd (1993) explains the two patterns of final reduplication (i.e. -CVC and -V:C) as the result of one single process: "bimoraic syllable reduplication", which seems to be a rather unusual type of reduplication. Here -CVC subsumes both forms, as the variation is conditioned by the form of the simplex. Productivity  rightwards reduplication is productive (only restrictions by semantic compatibility) Forms  Select ValueC CVC V:C   Functions  Select Valueintensification other word class derivation Patterns  Select Valuepartial partial with affixation Semantics  Select Valueintensity other   Word Classes  Select Valuenoun — verb verb — verb   All Examples  ⊟ References Byrd, Dani 1993. "Marshallese Suffixal Reduplication". In: Mead, Jonathan, eds., The Proceedings of the Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford Linguistics Association  Harrison, Sheldon P. 1973. "Reduplication in Micronesian Languages". In Oceanic Linguistics 12: 407 - 454     Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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