Sudipa, I Nengah (2013). Full-reduplication Balinese verbs: A semantic view. Lingual: Journal of Language and Culture, 1(2). DOI: 10.24843/LJLC.2013.v01.i02.p04. PDF (open access)
Balinese full-reduplication verbs are common in everyday life, and therefore can be found in any text written in Balinese. This article aims at describing the meaning of reduplicated forms such as kituk-kituk and lier-lier. The data was taken from Balinese newspapers and analyzed according to the principles of the NSM approach. The results show that reduplicated forms can signal (a) increased emphasis, e.g. anggut-anggut; (b) repetition, e.g. kauk-kauk; (c) a new meaning (when the root or single form does not exist in Balinese), e.g. sidap-sidap. NSM manages to coherently and systematically account for each of these.
