05-10-2018, 06:31 AM
(04-10-2018, 08:09 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(04-10-2018, 09:56 AM)ChenZheChina wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Yes, but it requires some intentional construction like the English sentence “I saw a saw saw a saw”, and probably won’t be common in daily usage.
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Thank you! From this remark and your examples, I would say that Chinese multiple repetition is not a feature of the language, but more something weird that can be constructed as something like a pun. Your English example is illuminating.
In Voynichese, multiple repetition is rather frequent, in particular if one considers pseudo-repetition. It looks like a feature of the language. I will try to think of a simple way to see which languages behave similarly in this respect.
Exactly. Multiple (more than 2) repetition is probably not a feature of Mandarin Chinese.
After reading your post, I really wonder what qo- prefix and o-prefix might be. If o is a vowel, Arabic definite article al- and Spanish el seems to be a possible candidate, for it appear at beginning of words frequently. But simply being definite article cannot explain their high correlation with reduplication as in your post. However, I really know nothing about those Arabic or Spanish, so I cannot say anything more.


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