Re: [tied] Re: o-grade thoughts

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 45894
Date: 2006-08-30

At 6:41:51 PM on Tuesday, August 29, 2006, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:

[...]

>> Reduplication may also express intensity, repetition and
>> the like ("It rained and rained as he rode and rode").

> And originally that meant: it rained, then it rained; he
> rode, then he rode. Plurality of rains spells, plurality
> of riding stages.

What is your evidence for original plurality rather than the
duration and/or intensity that the usage now conveys?

[...]

Brian