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Download full textAnderson, Gregory D. S. – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997
A salient characteristic of the morpho-lexical systems of the Salish languages is the widespread use of reduplication in both derivational and inflectional functions. Salish reduplication signals such typologically common categories as "distributive/plural,""repetitive/continuative," and "diminutive," the cross-linguistically marked but typically…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Research
