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eldin raigmore wrote: 01 Apr 2018 00:08
Dezinaa wrote: 29 Mar 2018 01:44
eldin raigmore wrote: 28 Mar 2018 20:09 Which is the correct English noun : —— “Tremendosity” Or “tremendousness”?
And why?
New Oxford American Dictionary says "tremendousness."
Thanks!
Any idea why tremendosity is not a well formed word?
There seems to be some discussion in the other thread where you asked the same question... As a rule, it might help if you only ask a question in a single thread; makes following the resulting discussion a bit easier for everyone.
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Xonen wrote: 01 Apr 2018 01:26 There seems to be some discussion in the other thread where you asked the same question... As a rule, it might help if you only ask a question in a single thread; makes following the resulting discussion a bit easier for everyone.
Huh!😧 I didn’t even remember asking it twice!

(BTW your link took me to the right thread but the wrong post; 324 pages ago! But I found the correct post easily enough!)

Sorry, people!
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What’s a better idea; rereduplication or reduplicationation?
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A better idea for what?
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shimobaatar wrote: 18 Apr 2018 14:54 A better idea for what?
For conlanging.
For coming up with a con-linguistic phenomenon that is rare or unnamed in, or missing from, RL natlangs or RL linguistics.

Or for a name for a RL linguistic “thing” that doesn’t already have as catchy a label.

Or for fun.
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I'm not sure what it would describe, but "rereduplication" sounds better to me, personally.
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shimobaatar wrote: 18 Apr 2018 19:00 I'm not sure what it would describe, but "rereduplication" sounds better to me, personally.
Me too.
If one applies reduplication to something that is already the result of reduplication, that might get called rereduplication.
It does happen IRL, and there is a legitimate question about it;
Does it result in something being said 3 times? Or 4 times?
In some natural languages the result is 3 consecutive instances of whatever; in other natlangs the result is 4 instances.
Then the next question is “Why?”.

OTOH for sheer fun “reduplicationation” sounds like something from a children’s educational TV show.
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For whatever it's worth, I've seen the term "triplication".
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eldin raigmore wrote: 18 Apr 2018 19:09 Does it result in something being said 3 times? Or 4 times?
Depends on the kind of reduplication, e.g. CV reduplication should result in things being said three times, full reduplication in things being said four times.

CV-rereduplication: result > rer~esult > re~reresult
full reduplication: result > result~result > resultresult~resultresult
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Thanks, shimobataar and Creyeditor.

Can either or each of you direct me to examples of what each of you has just said?
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Im skeptical of that Wikipedia article ... a few samples from elsewhere on the page:

The other cultural influences that are evident throughout Pingelapese history is the Spanish era portrayed in the Pingelapese dance called "Din Dihn" which is loosely translated in English to "Tin Tin". The dance reflects the introduction of a durable and foreign material called Tin by the Spaniards.
There is a set of words designated for deceiving long nouns, such as trees or roads.
The only other two languages in Micronesia that use triplification are Tibetan, Chintang, Batwana, and Thao.
It has been reported that around fifty years ago there was an early orthography taught at the Pingelap elementary atoll. It is not known to many people, but elderly Pingelapese people have confirmed it.
The Pingelapse language consists of a total of thirty five phonemes. There are 11 consonants and 14 vowels.
Pingelapese has ten syllables and eight vowel phonemes. This is the first recorded Pohnpeic language that has an eight-vowel system. Multiple young and elderly Pingelapese speakers in the Mwalok and Pingelap atoll can confirm this recent discovery of the eighth vowel.
Stand alone auxiliary verbs are also a constant in Pingelapese. These verbs are created by taking the ae, aen, e, and e from the pronoun auxiliary complex and will leave the person/number morphemes out.
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Oh wow, that's hilariously bad. I just google "triplication in linguistics", and didn't read very carefully (clearly).
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There are two articles; the Reduplication article and the Pingelap article.
Which one are you suspicious of?

I agree that those things you found are suspicious.

I was suspicious with less reason, I’m just always suspicious of Wikipedia, unless I can find a corroborating document.

It’s still interesting.

BTW Some of this has been talked about before in the thread http://www.cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4145#p162391

That’s “Pluralses and Rereduplication” if you have trouble finding it from the above URL.

You might also search for this string: triplication in grammar and/or linguistics
And pick out the best hits.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf ... 968X.12083
https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica ... /3610/3307
http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/e ... s_1991.pdf
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/su ... 1.546.4399
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/do ... 1&type=pdf


Possibly inter alia.
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home.uni-leipzig.de/zimmerma/Talks/Rep16_sl.pdf are slides about multiple CV-reduplication, just skip the theory and look at the data (e.g. 12/51).
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Creyeditor wrote: 19 Apr 2018 10:47 home.uni-leipzig.de/zimmerma/Talks/Rep16_sl.pdf are slides about multiple CV-reduplication, just skip the theory and look at the data (e.g. 12/51).
I get a “no route found” error message when I try to bring up that link.
Edit: I was able to edit the URL and find the PowerPoint slideshow. (The problem is with getting there from the CBB.)
Thanks! I hope to look into it further; it looks informative!
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Does anyone else try to research something and then as soon as you ask a question somewhere, your "google-fu" gets about ten times better for that subject?
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LinguistCat wrote: 29 Apr 2018 01:05 Does anyone else try to research something and then as soon as you ask a question somewhere, your "google-fu" gets about ten times better for that subject?
I’ve noticed something similar; but my improvements aren’t that big nor that rapid.
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LinguistCat wrote: 29 Apr 2018 01:05 Does anyone else try to research something and then as soon as you ask a question somewhere, your "google-fu" gets about ten times better for that subject?
I'm much more likely to experience the irl version of this. Like, it used to be that when I couldn't find something, I'd ask my mom to help me, but then almost instantly I'd find what I was looking for.
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