Handling reduplication

[vinbo8]

What's the current standard for handling reduplication? Marathi has reduplication in quite a few contexts, I've marked all of these with compound for now but I don't know how valid that is. I'll try and enumerate some examples briefly (leaving the glosses out for the duplicated phrases):

Adjectival reduplication:

• Intensification: lāl phula. "Red flowers" (red flower-PL) vs. lāl-lāl phula. "(Very) red flowers" (also "many red flowers").

• Implying "distributions": ardhā lāḍū doghānnī khallā. "Both of them ate half a sweet" (half-SG sweet both-PL-ERG eat-PERF) vs. ardhā-ardhā lāḍū doghānnī khallā. "Each of them ate half a sweet (i.e. they ate the whole thing together)"

Adverbial reduplication:

• Lexicalised compounds: haḷū "slowly" vs. haḷū-haḷū "gradually", parat "again" vs. parat-parat "repeatedly".

• Intensification: to jorāt oraḍlā. "He shouted loudly" (he loudly shout-IMPF-3MSG) vs. to jor-jorāt oraḍlā. "He shouted (very) loudly".

Verbal reduplication:

• Adverbialisation: (malā) sāngūn-sāngūn kanṭāḷ ālā. "(I) am tired of telling sb. sth. again and again" (me-DAT tell-CVB-PERF tell-CVB-PERF boredom.M come-3MSG).

• Sequential/parallel actions: bastā-bastā pāūs surū jhālā. "While (we) were sitting, it started raining" (sit-IMPF-PTCP sit-IMPF-PTCP rain.M start happen-3MSG); baslyā baslyā pāūs surū jhālā. "As soon as (we) sat down, it started raining)" (sit-PERF-PTCP sit-PERF-PTCP rain.M start happen-3MSG). These can be expressed with converbs, but reduplication is more frequent in narrative contexts.

Pronouns: pluralisation; kuṭhe? "where?"; kuṭhe kuṭhe? "where? (multiple places)"

Echo words: mula "children"; mula bila "children etc.".

Any suggestions? Would a subtype of compound work for all of these?

[martinpopel]

See http://universaldependencies.org/tr/dep/compound-redup.html

[vinbo8]

Perfect, I hadn't noticed that. I'll subtype compound, then - cheers!

[dan-zeman]

Also see #238 and #307. Looks like we need a section on reduplication in the docs.

[jnivre]

We need a lot in the docs. Working out more complete guidelines and docs should definitely be our first priority once the dust settles after the shared task and the workshop.