Rara #31

Legacy number: 31

 Number  31
 Phenomenon  reduplication of verb to form finite verb of restrictive relative clauses with non-actor head nouns
 Found in  Wetan (Eastern Indonesian, Austronesian)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — types of exponents and their uses
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  reduplication, finite verb, restrictive relative clasue
 Source  Carpenter, Kathie (1996). Subordination by reduplication in Wetan. Studies in Language<i/> 20: 37-51.
 Violates  none

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Note: a finite verb, not an attributive deverbal adjective or noun, for which purpose reduplication is used more commonly, not to mention its even more popular uses
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Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
Note: a finite verb, not an attributive deverbal adjective or noun, for which purpose reduplication is used more commonly, not to mention its even more popular uses