Universal 659:
- Original
- There is no reduplication pattern which would not involve reference to lexical identity.
- Standardized
- There is no reduplication pattern which would not involve reference to lexical identity.
- Keywords
- reduplication
- Domain
- morphology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Moravcsik 1978c
- Source
- Moravcsik 1978c: 315
- Counterexamples
Moravcsik mentions that lexical identity is not always required, in some instatnces it is excluded. Her claim is that in no instance of reduplication is it immaterial if (all of part of) the same lexical item is involved in the repetition or (all or part of) a lexical item that has the same meaning but a different form. (Moravcsik 1978: 315, fn. 8)