Reduplication in Dhundari
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The research paper mainly focuses on reduplication process, its morphological construction and semantic features in the Dhundari language. Dhundari is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken in the Dhundar region, the northeastern part of Rajasthan state, India. Reduplication is a very common morphological process in the grammar of Dhundari like other Indian and South Asian languages. Reduplication is universally used to refer to the repetition of the linguistic units, such as a phoneme, morpheme, word, and utterances as well. The present study is to reveal the reduplicated patterns, structures, and their functions, which occur in Dhundari. The present paper also tries to show the comprehensible differences between the terms Reduplication and Repetition processes, found in this language. The term Repetition in African languages is a common semi-morphological process that is also observed in Dhundari in different contexts of the communication process with its semantic and pragmatic functions. The data for the study was collected in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from five different native speakers of Dhundar region (SwaiMadhopur). The findings of the paper clearly demonstrate that the function of reduplication process is observed widely in terms of emphasis, generality, intensity and pragmatic. The present result also indicates that reduplication process is a salient linguistic feature of Dhundari like other Indian languages.
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