Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Koasati (cku) Alternative Names  Coushatta Family/Group  Muskogean Area  North America General Data  spoken in Louisiana and Texas (USA) Typological Information  • morphologically motivated pitch accents in verbal forms • SOV • switch-reference marking system Reduplication Form-Function  • penultimate syllable -CV(C)- (with and without fixed segmentism): continuous repetition, i.e. iterative reduplication (pluralization) • initial syllable -CV(C)- (with and without fixed segmentism): punctual repetition (pluralization) Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Reduplication System  the verb roots that permit reduplication are quite limited: generally they are of the form CVCVCli, CVCVCka, CVCVCki, CVCli, CVCka or CVCVCbi, of which the CVCVCli/CVCli and CVCVCka/CVCka pairs frequently mark a singular/plural meaning distinction, e.g. tipáslin "to pick something off"/típlin "to pick many things off" (cf. Kimball 1988: 431-432) Productivity  reduplication is a now unproductive morphological process in Koasati (cf. Kimball 1988: 431, 435) Stylistic Information  many verbs formed by iterative reduplication are used only for humorous effect (see Kimball 1988: 434) Comments  verbal forms cited from Kimball (1988) are glossed as infinitives but are actually third person indicative forms followed by the switch of reference suffix -n (cf. Kimball 1988: 441 fn. 2) Forms  Select ValueCV CVC reduplicant with fixed segments   Functions  Select Valuelexical enrichment pluralization Patterns  Select Valuepartial Semantics  Select Valuecontinuity plurality   Word Classes  Select Value0 — noun 0 — verb verb — verb   All Examples  ⊟ References Kimball, Geoffrey 1988. "Koasati Reduplication". In: Shipley, William, eds., In Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics, Berlin/New York/Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter  Kimball, Geoffrey 1991. Koasati Grammar. Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press; (relevant pages: 325-327; 350-353)     Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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