compound:redup: reduplicated compounds
Reduplication of adverbs is productive in Modern Greek and is a way of intensification of the meaning of the adverb. Each adverb is assigned the tag ADV and first one is assigned the feature Degree=Aug. The second adverb depends on the first one with the compound:redup dependency.
- πάνω πάνω Lit. up up “on the very top”
- πίσω πίσω Lit. back back “at the very back”, σιγά σιγά Lit. slowly slowly “very very slowly”
- πονηρά πονηρά Lit. cuningly cuningly “very very cunningly”.
πάνω πάνω
compound:redup(πάνω-2, πάνω-1)
For lexicalized multi-word items with repetition, e.g. τσίμα τσίμα we use fixed.
compound:redup in other languages: [bm] [el] [hy] [pa] [pcm] [qpm] [tr] [u] [vi]