Reduplication in Malay.

• Main Author: Nur Hairiana Alikamal.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50849
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Although Austronesian languages are recognized for utilizing reduplication, no studies have been done on reduplication in Classical Malay. This study examines the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of reduplicated nouns and verbs in Classical Malay literature from the 1500s. It is also the firs...