Reduplication in Kodi: A Paradigm Function Account

This paper investigates reduplication in Kodi, an under-documented and understudied language spoken Sumba Island, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, eastern Indonesia. Reduplication Kodi shows various patterns that fall under two major types: full partial reduplication. Full mostly involves of the entire disyllabic base. In reduplication, salient are copied initial parts (a syllable a foot), internal part syllable), or final (foot) Furthermore, process serves to express semantic properties, such as verbal number pluractionality, indirect noun pluralization, attenuation numeral distributivity. It is argued (i) stress determines foot which reduplicated predictable from patterns, (ii) context triggers processes, (iii) framework theory (Generalized) Paradigm Function Morphology ((G)PFM) ( Stump 2001 , 2016 ; Stewart & 2007 Spencer 2013 Nikolaeva 2019 ) can satisfactorily capture how base process. study provides additional evidence support (G)PFM theory, arguably be extended handle complex reduplicative beyond Kodi.