Iteration (linguistics)

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Iteration is used in linguistics as a generic term for reduplication and triplication , although not very often. What is meant is a form of word formation in which several identical or similar word parts ( morphemes ) are repeated two or more times with or without phonetic modification. Mayerthaler (1977: 47) speaks of "n-application structure". Example: the day before yesterday , great , great , great grandmother .

As a reduplication, the iteration also plays a role in the inflection , for example in the inflection of Gothic, Greek and Latin verbs.

literature

  • Willi Mayerthaler: Studies on theoretical and French morphology. Reduplication, echo words, morphological naturalness, haplology, productivity, rule scoping, paradigmatic compensation. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1977. ISBN 3-484-10260-8

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