Thank you, mscheo!
What you write seems interesting to me, but I am not sure it is much related with "function words" in particular. I suggest moving your post another thread e.g. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Exact reduplication like 'jalan-jalan' also happens in the VMS (e.g. 'daiin daiin'). It involves almost 1% of consecutive word couples.
But partial reduplication (what I call quasi-reduplication) is about twice as frequent. This can be defined as consecutive words that only differ by one glyph. This is an EVA example with two occurrences:
<f103r.50,+P0> ssheey.l,shey.qol.cheey.chey.qokeey.okeey.qokain.cheey.qotain
Do you think that anything similar also occurs in Malay? I.e. that consecutive words can systematically be very similar, differing by a single character?
Also, do you know of any old Malay text that features frequent reduplication and is available as a downloadable file somewhere?
What you write seems interesting to me, but I am not sure it is much related with "function words" in particular. I suggest moving your post another thread e.g. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Exact reduplication like 'jalan-jalan' also happens in the VMS (e.g. 'daiin daiin'). It involves almost 1% of consecutive word couples.
But partial reduplication (what I call quasi-reduplication) is about twice as frequent. This can be defined as consecutive words that only differ by one glyph. This is an EVA example with two occurrences:
<f103r.50,+P0> ssheey.l,shey.qol.cheey.chey.qokeey.okeey.qokain.cheey.qotain
Do you think that anything similar also occurs in Malay? I.e. that consecutive words can systematically be very similar, differing by a single character?
Also, do you know of any old Malay text that features frequent reduplication and is available as a downloadable file somewhere?