Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Lavukaleve (lvk) Alternative Names  Laube, Laumbe, Russell Island Family/Group  East Papuan, Yele-Solomons-New Britain Area  Australia and New Guinea General Data  spoken on the Russell Islands (Central Solomons) Typological Information  • SOV • 3 nominal genders • serial verb constructions • clause chaining • elaborate deictic system • grammatical focus constructions Reduplication Form-Function  • CV-: imperative, reciprocity (with affixation) • CVV-: imperative, pluralization • CVCV-: pluralization • full: intensification Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Reduplication System  • partial reduplication can take the shape of an initial CV, CVV or CVCV while full reduplication of longer words occurs only seldomly (cf. Terrill 2003: 35) • reduplication in Lavukaleve only applies to word stems, not to affixes, and does not always have a semantic function: e.g. telako "one" -> te~telako "one" (cf. Terrill 2003: 36) Diachrony  there are some lexical reduplications without simplex forms in Lavukaleve which suggest an origin in a former process of reduplication, an analysis which is also capable of explaining some synchronic vowel alternations between the respective singular and dual as well as plural forms Productivity  reduplication is a relatively productive process in Lavukaleve applying to words of many word classes and exhibiting a range of actual forms often in free variation (cf. Terrill 2003: 35) Forms  Select Valueσσ CV CVC CVCV CVV word   Functions  Select Valueintensification lexical enrichment other pluralization Patterns  Select Valuefull partial partial with affixation Semantics  Select Valueintensity other plurality   Word Classes  Select Value0 — adjective/adverb 0 — noun 0 — other adjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — noun other — other verb — verb   All Examples  ⊟ References Terrill, Angela 2003. A Grammar of Lavukaleve. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter; (relevant pages: 28-30; 35-36; 64-65; 105-106; 116; 366-367; 396-398)     Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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