There's also a bit about it in Jan Gonda's
Sanskrit in Indonesia (Nagpur 1952), taking the
matter into South-East Asia.
I've followed this topic with interest.
Dermot Killingley
On 8 Aug 2015 at 11:28, tatiana.oranskaia wrote:
As the issue of reduplications in SA is on the agenda, the book of
Anvita Abbi Reduplication in South Asian Languages: An Areal,
Typological, and Historical Study, 1992, should not be forgotten.
All the best,
Tatiana Oranskaia
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Zitat von Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi@gmail.com>:
> . echo reduplication is not specific to Dravidian. It is found in Hindi,
> Marathi, Punjabi and many other north Indian languages too. In an article
> on "Reduplication and echo words in Hindi/Urdu",
>
> https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00449691/document
> Annie Montaut, Inalco, Paris says, "Reduplication is a pan-Indian
> phenomenon regularly quoted as one of the dozen features accounting for the
> consistency of the South Asian linguistic area " citing Massica 1992,
> Emeneau 1980 in the endnote.
>
> In the section dealing with echo reduplication, the author says,
>
>
> "Such a phenomena is omnipresent in all the so-called ?dialects? or
> regional varieties of Hindi, although it often displays a consonant
> different from the v- used in Standard Hindi : In Panjabi and Panjabi-ized
> Hindi for instance sh- is used to derive F? (matlab-shatlab
> ?signification?, with some of such formations quasi lexicalized
> (gap-conversation- shap, ?gossiping, talking?) ; in the Pahari (mountain)
> speeches, h- or ph- is used with the same function (lenîn-henîn, rûs-hûs,
> ishk-phishk ?love-etc"
>
>
> end note to this says,
>
>
> "Pahari (« mountain») speeches include mainly Garhwali and Kumaoni. ishk
> transcribes the native prononciation of ishq. This type of echo is even
> panindian (Emeneau 1980), with various consonants used for the first
> consonant in F?, such as g- in Telugu (puli-guli « flower »)."
>
>
>
> --
> Prof.Nagaraj Paturi
> Hyderabad-500044
>
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