Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Georgian (kat) Alternative Names  Kartuli, Gruzinski, Common Kartvelian Family/Group  Kartvelian Area  Eurasia General Data  spoken in Georgia (official language), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia (Asia), Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan Typological Information  • SVO • no gender • numeral/adjective/genitive/demonstrative - noun order • predominantly agglutinative • ergativity Reduplication Form-Function  • full: pluralization, diminution • partial: pluralization • echo word (unproductive) • interjections Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Reduplication System  main function of reduplication is distributivity Productivity  • distributive constructions with reduplicated verbs or adjectives are very productive • echo words are lexicalized (unproductive) Repetitive Operations  with the linker da "and" as a conjunction or as a part of a compound: e.g. mavan-i da mavan-i "this and that" p'ir-da-p'ir "straight-ahead, opposite" (Hewitt 1995: 112) Forms  Select Valueσσ CVC echo stem   Functions  Select Valuediminution lexical enrichment other pluralization Patterns  Select Valuefull partial echo word formation Semantics  Select Valuediminuity plurality   Word Classes  Select Value0 — noun 0 — other adjective/adverb — adjective/adverb verb — verb   All Examples  ⊟ References Gil, David 1988. "Georgian Reduplication and the Domain of distributivity". In Linguistics 26/6: 1039-1065  Hewitt, B. George 1995. Georgian - A structural reference grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company; (relevant pages: 99, 107, 112)     Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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