Article

Name: Means of expressing the category of quantity (on the basis of the Japanese language)

Authors: Kutafyeva N.V.

Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The paper describes the phenomenon of reduplication in the Japanese language, and presents the characteristics, semantic categories, possibilities of combination with quantitative expressions and meaning of noun reduplicates. The unproductiveness and irregularity of their formation are explained.

Keywords: grammatical category, quantity, reduplication, japanese language

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