Reduplicated intransitive verb.

These are normally intensitive, reiterative or continuative, semantically, and they need to be systematically subclassified under these semantic categories, and possibly there are more relevant sematnic categories.

There are many reduplicative intransitive verbs which are never used without reduplication. These belong, conceptually, into the syntactic category "vvi.red". Thus all reduplicative intransitive verbs need to be tested to see whether they really belong into a category to be established, the vvi.red.

WANG WEIMAO 1999 has an exhaustive survey of reduplicative binomes in classical Chinese and will, I suppose, remain the classical reference for a long time to come. The system of the range of semantic functions of reduplication remains to be explored.

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Usage

• Lexical entries: 195

• Found 179 attributions

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Hypernym

• vi

Hyponym

• vi.red:-V{SUF}
• vi.red:-p::adV
• vi.red:adN
• vi.red:post-N
• vi0.red
• vi.red-V:adNPab{S}
• vi.red:adV