LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 9 : 10 October 2009
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Noun Reduplication in Tamil and Kannada

A. Boologa Rambai, Ph.D.

Introduction

Reduplication is a pan-Indian linguistic feature in word formation. The process is defined as "the process of all or part of the lexical item repeated as a syllable, morpheme or word with in a larger syntactic unit carrying a semantic modification."

Lawral J. Brinton, in his Structure of English - An Introduction (1991, p.91) defines it as "Reduplication is an initial process similar to derivation in which the initial syllable or the entire word is doubled, exactly or with a slight morphological change." S. Kiyomi explains Reduplication as "Given a word with a phonological form X then reduplication refers Xx or xX (where a part of X and x can appear either just before X or inside x. There are two conditions: Xx of xX must be semantically related to x and Xx or xX must be predicative".

Abbi (1992) discusses two types of reduplication, viz., Morphological and Lexical reduplication. She further divides the lexical reduplication into three types: Echo-Formation, Compounds and Word-Reduplication.

Reduplication may be further classified into three types: Complete, Partial and Discontinuous Reduplication.

Reduplication may be defined as "the total or partial bimodal reduplication meaning there by repetition of the base of the word or the stem. Either a syllable or a constituent of a word or of the whole may iterate". Whatever may be the unit of repetition the end result is a new word has no parallel in its non reduplicated counterpart.

The Focus of This Article

Tamil and Kannada belong to the same language group, the Dravidian family. Both languages are treated as sister languages. The present paper highlights the Noun reduplication in Tamil and Kannada. This study of reduplicated structure in Tamil and Kannada reveals the fact that though reduplication is a general morphological feature of the language, some specifications can be drawn from the functional point of view and as a result from the semantic point of view as well.

This is an attempt to study the Reduplicated Noun from the point of view of occurrence in the language, its function and semantic interpretation in Kannada and Tamil. These two languages have the following parts of speech: Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Conjunction, Postposition and Interjection. The formation of Reduplication occurs in almost all the above said parts of speech. This paper briefly deals with the Noun Reduplication in Tamil and Kannada.

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A. Boologa Rambai
Department of Tamil & Translation Studies
Dravidian University
Kuppam - 517 425
Andhra Pradesh, India
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