Abstract
In this article, I shall discuss the treatment of reduplication, and most notably total reduplication in an implemented grammar of Hausa. I shall compare several patterns observed in the language and conclude, on the basis of segmental and suprasegmental properties alike, that partial and total reduplication operate on entirely different structures: phonological representations of limited size (max: CVC) in the case of partial reduplication, and morphological representations, such as stems in the case of total reduplication. Finally, I shall show that partial reduplication can readily be captured by the morphophonological means offered by the underlying formalism, yet argue that total reduplication is best modelled on the basis of a binary morphological construction. I shall propose a formalisation that keeps all of the linguistic generalisations within the grammar proper, yet ensures compositionality and reversibility.
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