0. Different Status of Reduplication This is a preliminary study of classifying languages from the point of whether, how, and to what extent the system of reduplication functions in the grammar. In this article, I would like to propose three-fold classification or typology of languages. Those are Type I, the peripheral reduplication languages, Type II, the expressive reduplication languages, and Type III, the core reduplication languages. In some languages, reduplication plays so essential a role in the core part of the grammar such as for the indicator of tense or aspect that without it, the whole grammatical system would not function. A Note on Language Typology by the Status of Reduplication Ryuji Harada* Abstract All languages have ways of creating new words or expressions by repeating an entire word or a part of it. This process has been known as reduplication. Some languages have a quite large set of lexicalized vocabulary thus created. Some have a very active and pro- ductive system of reduplication. Some further rely on reduplication for the purpose of derivation and inflection. This study is an attempt to classify the languages according to the position of reduplication in the grammar of each language: highly reduplicative lan- guages to low rate reduplication languages. This is not a classification of reduplication by its forms and functions, into which most of the previous studies have brought focuses. The new cross-language view into reduplication presented in this study reveals that re- duplication phenomena are not sporadically scattered across languages. Instead, it re- sides in a large mass in one language, and in another, it occupies a small peripheral part of the grammar. The former is an reduplication emporium which has in stock all the items the smaller ones keep. Key Words: Arabic（アラビア語），Chinese（中国語），Hindi（ヒンディー語），Japanese （日本語），Khalkha Mongolian（ハルハ・モンゴル語），Korean（朝鮮語・韓国語），Me- duplication（メデュプリケーション），Mimetics（擬態語・擬声語），Reduplication（リ デュプリケーション），Tagalog（タガログ語） *School of Social Information Studies, Otsuma Women’s University 大妻女子大学紀要 ―社会情報系― 社会情報学研究 １７２００８ １９９ brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk