compound:redup: reduplicated compound
The compound:redup dependency is a subtype of the compound dependency that models a range of reduplicated forms. Reduplication is a common process, especially with adverbs and adjectives and typically involves two identical words although some morpho-phonological alternations are possible. Usually, the head is the last word. The compound:redup dependency is traced in Pomak:
adín sítan sítan dožd letǽšo
lit: a soft soft rain was raining
"a very soft rain was raining"
compound:redup(sítan, sítan)
It also appears in loans from Turkish:
déteno javáš javáš narášte
lit: the child slowly slowly grows up
"the child grows up very slowly"
compound:redup (javáš, javáš)
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