PSEUDO-REDUPLICATION, REDUPLICATION AND REPETITION ...

252Andrei A. Avram 28In Sinhala, several word classes undergo reduplication. Thus, reduplicatedadjectives express intensification:(116) digəTə ‘long’> digəTə-digəTə ‘very long’ (Seratne 2009: 42)As for verbs, past participles may be reduplicated and denote continuation:(117) gaa-nəvaa ‘painting’> gaa-nəvaa gaa-nəvaa ‘while painting’ (Seratne 2009:199)Reduplication of adverbs with an intensifying meaning is also attested:(118) hemin ‘slowly’ > hemin hemin ‘very slowly’ (Seratne 2009: 42)Reduplicated question words have a distributive meaning:(119) monəvə ‘what’> monəvə monəvə ‘what various things’ (Seratne 2009: 42)In Tamil, noun reduplication expresses distributiveness:(120) viiti ‘street’> viiti viiti ‘each street’ (Kane 2001: 53)A distributive meaning is also conveyed by reduplicated personal pronouns:(121) avan ‘he’ > avan avan ‘each and every man’ (Kane 2001: 53)With adjectives, reduplication expresses intensification:(122) nalla ‘ good’ > nalla nalla ‘very good’ (Kane 2001: 53)Reduplicated infinitives and participles express a habitual meaning, continuityor intensity:(123) a. neruŋka come > neruŋka neruŋka ‘come closer’ (Kane 2001: 53)b. vantu ‘coming’ > vantu vantu ‘coming regularly’ (Kane 2001: 53)Finally, reduplicated question words have a distributive meaning:(124) yaar > ‘who’ yaar yaar ‘which different persons’ (Kane 2001: 53)