Standard Turkic C-Type Reduplications
Journal: Jagiellonian University Repository (Jagiellonian University)
Year: 2014

The book examines partial interfixed reduplications in the standard Turkic languages.<br>Generally no longer productive, this type of reduplication served primarily to intensify adjectives and adverbs. The reduplicated anlaut was prepended to the the base, and a lexically determined consonant inserted in between, e.g. Tksh. kara ‘black’ → ka.p.kara ‘jet-black’, Trkm. gūry ‘dry’ → gu.s.gūry ‘completely dry’.<br>Unlike most previous works, this book considers the phenomenon comparatively across tw