TY - JOUR T1 - Echo Reduplication in LoghatNâme: A New Study TT - مقوله «اتباع» در لغت‌نامه دهخدا (یک بررسی مجدّد) JF - mdrsjrns JO - mdrsjrns VL - 3 IS - 3 UR - http://lrr.modares.ac.ir/article-14-2647-en.html Y1 - 2012 SP - 175 EP - 192 KW - Repetition KW - Echo reduplication KW - Irreversible binominals KW - LoghatNâme KW - morphology KW - Dehkhoda N2 - Dictionaries are regarded as the basic criteria in language teaching and research; therefore, they are expected to be free from analytic fallacies. However, it seems that there are some inconsistencies in the definition of the morphological units in Persian dictionaries. In this article, echo reduplications (or Etbâ’) are studied in the text of LoghatNâme by Dehkhodâ. To this end, after defining the process of echo reduplications, all the entries which have been labeled to belong to this category, were extracted and analyzed according to the linguistic definitions available for echo reduplication. The analysis revealed that many of the entries with an echo reduplication label have not been treated correctly, and this error takes its roots from either referring to the echo contractions in other languages, or sticking to the traditional definitions of this issue. M3 ER -