Adjective Reduplication
Reduplicación de adjetivos
Object Details
Subject Language | Chatino, Tataltepec de Valdés |
Language PID(s) | ailla:119704 |
Title [Indigenous] | |
Language of Indigenous Title | |
Title | Adjective Reduplication |
Language Community | Tataltepec Chatino |
Country(ies) | Mexico |
Place Created | Tataltepec de Valdés, Oaxaca, México |
Date Created | 2012-04-15 |
Description [Indigenous] | |
Language of Indigenous Description | |
Description | There is a marginal process of adjective reduplication in Cháʔknyá. To indicate an intense degree of an adjective's meaning, an adjective is prefixed by a partial reduplication and suffixed with the particle ka /ka(S)/. The form of the reduplicant minimally involves the reduplicand's initial consonant and a vowel, which for some speakers tends to be influenced by the vowel of the stem. For some speakers for some adjectives, the reduplication is total. This process appears marginal and most likely non-productive, and there is a large amount of disagreement between speakers about exactly what form the redupilcant will take and even if reduplication is possible for a given adjective. The adjectives included are: soft; hot; loose; greedy; thin; bare; different; hard; respected; narrow; ugly; equal; long; far away; clean; mature; rotten; pure; round; respectful; tasty; all; dense; a while; several; old. |
Genres | Elicitation |
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References | |
Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Sullivant, J. Ryan (Researcher) Cortés Jiménez, Celiflora (Speaker) Mateo Mejía, Flavia (Speaker) |
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