Abstract
Reduplicated words are a
fascinating, and fun aspect of language. In many languages (nearly 85%)
reduplication has been observed. Reduplication, as Charles Kauffman (2015)
points out is a morphological process that through doubling a morpheme
enhances, emphasizes, amplifies, enlarges, diminishes, adds number or changes
verb tense – to bring about significant meaning changes or shades of meaning.
In general, there are two basic forms – full reduplication and partial
reduplication that each of them includes several forms. In this research, our
purpose is identifying and introducing a variety of reduplication patterns in
Kurdish language. For this purpose we explored more than 700 samples of
reduplications in Kurdish language and categorized them in several sets. We
noticed that frequentative, increased action, and plural action as the most
common semantic categories marked by reduplication in the samples. The studies
show that this morphological process especially partial type causes some
changes in the meaning of resulting combinations. What is added to the
reduplicant (base or root), in most cases, is meaningless. It also seems this
kind of words especially partial ones are used in informal language and an
ironic meaning is inferred by them.
Keywords
References
- Bolinger D, 1968. Aspects of language, New York: Harcout, Brace and word.
- David N. MacKenzie. 1961. Kurdish Dialect Studies. Oxford University Press.
- Feyzizadeh, Taha, 1988. Kurdish Binary words dictionary. Orumieh: Literature and culture center press.
- Galali, Kosar Aziz Ahmad, 2004.Doubled words in Kurdish, Hewler: Aras Publication, No 437.
- Ghaniabadi, S., Ghomeshi, J., & Sadat-Tehrani, N. (2006). Reduplication in Persian: A morphological doubling approach. In Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Conference of Canadian Linguistic Association (pp. 1-15).
- Ghaniabadi, Saeed. 2005. Echo reduplication in colloquial Persian: an OT Analysis. Linguistic Analysis 24:175-217.
- Goeffrey Haig and Yaron Matras. 2002. Kurdish Linguistics: A Brief Overview. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals, 55(1).
- Golfam, Arsalan and QhomSheie, Gholamreza Meheyedin, 2011.The iconicity of Reduplicative constructions in Persian, Tehran: Language and contrastive researches magazine, p153-172.
- Gonda, J. 1950. "The functions of word duplication in Indonesian languages". In Lingua 2: 170-197.
- Haegeman, L.(1992). Introdution to Government & Binding Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Abstract
Reduplicated words are a
fascinating, and fun aspect of language. In many languages (nearly 85%)
reduplication has been observed. Reduplication, as Charles Kauffman (2015)
points out is a morphological process that through doubling a morpheme
enhances, emphasizes, amplifies, enlarges, diminishes, adds number or changes
verb tense – to bring about significant meaning changes or shades of meaning.
In general, there are two basic forms – full reduplication and partial
reduplication that each of them includes several forms. In this research, our
purpose is identifying and introducing a variety of reduplication patterns in
Kurdish language. For this purpose we explored more than 700 samples of
reduplications in Kurdish language and categorized them in several sets. We
noticed that frequentative, increased action, and plural action as the most
common semantic categories marked by reduplication in the samples. The studies
show that this morphological process especially partial type causes some
changes in the meaning of resulting combinations. What is added to the
reduplicant (base or root), in most cases, is meaningless. It also seems this
kind of words especially partial ones are used in informal language and an
ironic meaning is inferred by them.
Keywords
References
- Bolinger D, 1968. Aspects of language, New York: Harcout, Brace and word.
- David N. MacKenzie. 1961. Kurdish Dialect Studies. Oxford University Press.
- Feyzizadeh, Taha, 1988. Kurdish Binary words dictionary. Orumieh: Literature and culture center press.
- Galali, Kosar Aziz Ahmad, 2004.Doubled words in Kurdish, Hewler: Aras Publication, No 437.
- Ghaniabadi, S., Ghomeshi, J., & Sadat-Tehrani, N. (2006). Reduplication in Persian: A morphological doubling approach. In Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Conference of Canadian Linguistic Association (pp. 1-15).
- Ghaniabadi, Saeed. 2005. Echo reduplication in colloquial Persian: an OT Analysis. Linguistic Analysis 24:175-217.
- Goeffrey Haig and Yaron Matras. 2002. Kurdish Linguistics: A Brief Overview. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals, 55(1).
- Golfam, Arsalan and QhomSheie, Gholamreza Meheyedin, 2011.The iconicity of Reduplicative constructions in Persian, Tehran: Language and contrastive researches magazine, p153-172.
- Gonda, J. 1950. "The functions of word duplication in Indonesian languages". In Lingua 2: 170-197.
- Haegeman, L.(1992). Introdution to Government & Binding Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
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| Journal Section | Makaleler |
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| Publication Date | December 10, 2016 |
| Submission Date | December 17, 2016 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2016Volume: 2 Issue: 3 |
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