Universal #300

Legacy number: 300

 Number  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

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Discussion
Notes
Perhaps rather: Repetition of identical forms (features, segments, syllable parts, syllables, morphemes, words, phrases, clauses), rather than reduplication in a narrower sense.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Perhaps rather: Repetition of identical forms (features, segments, syllable parts, syllables, morphemes, words, phrases, clauses), rather than reduplication in a narrower sense.