Universal 299:
- Original
- All languages use reduplication as a productive grammatical way of word formation and inflection.
- Standardized
- Reduplication is used as a productive grammatical way of word formation and inflection.
- Keywords
- reduplication
- Domain
- morphology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- see Vardul’ 1969, referring to Uspensky
- Counterexamples
Perhaps rather: Repetition of identical forms (features, segments, syllable parts, syllables, morphemes, words, phrases, clauses), rather than reduplication in a narrower sense.