On first syllable reduplications in Karaim

Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press. Studia linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2010: 139–156.ISBN 978-83-233-3255-8Studies on the Turkic world: a festschrift for professor St. Stachowski on the occasion of his 80 birthday (edited by E. Mańczak Wohlfeld and B. Podolak).Among the many types of reduplication in the Turkic languages, at least four are essentially a reduplication of the first syllable. One of them, the reduplication of the first syllable with an appended closing consonant, vastly outnumbers the others. It also appears to be the type usually meant when using the term first syllable reduplication in everyday speech. In general, the phenomenon is poorly investigated. In particular, there does not seem to be any works devoted to its manifestation in Karaim.