CHAPTER ONE

1.0

INTRODUCTION

Reduplication

is

a morphological  process

in which

the

root

of

a  word  or

a

part  of it is

repeated. In many  languages, reduplication

is

used in inflections

to convey  grammatical

functions

and  in lexical

derivations

to create  semantic

functions . Kachru (1982) noted

that

the

reduplication

of  items

belongs

to various

word

classes. For

instance,

some

English

words

are

often

reduplicated

or

repeated

consecutively, either

for

emphasis,

pluralisation

or to

create

new

meanings. Bobda (1994) identified

three

categories

of words

which

generally