Pavel Hons
List of John Benjamins publications in which Pavel Hons is involved.
2009 Phonetic Reduplication in Tamil in the Context of Expressivity Archív Orientální 76:4, pp. 491–507 | Article
The article deals with reduplication in Tamil. It arranges various types of reduplication into five groups, according to one formal criterion – what is reduplicated. Then it focuses on phonetic reduplication, i.e. partial reduplication where the second word (the reduplicant) copies the phonetic… read more
2007 Types of Semantic Reduplication in Tamil Archív Orientální 75:3, pp. 411–424 | Article
This article deals with pairs of synonymous words in Tamil. These pairs are very frequent in modern Tamil but only a few words constituting these pairs can be considered complete synonyms. Most of them differ in meaning, emotive charge or source of origin. The pairs are arranged into several major… read more




