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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes. Edward Sapir. 1921. Language: An Introduction to the Study of ...
Words of this type are all but universal.
Such examples as the Russian Chudo-Yudo (a dragon), the Chinese ping-pang “rattling of rain on the roof,” 21 the Tibetan kyang-kyong “lazy,” and the Manchu porpon parpan “blear-eyed” are curiously reminiscent, both in form and in psychology, of words nearer home.
But it can hardly be said that the duplicative process is of a distinctively grammatical significance in English.
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