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Agravassesagravasses is a neologism used in linguistic discussions and speculative fiction to denote a form of full reduplication in which a base morpheme is duplicated immediately with no intervening boundary, yielding a single, elongated string. The canonical example is agravassesagravasses, formed by repeating the base unit agravasse twice.

Etymology and origin of the term are scholarly constructs rather than evidence from natural languages. The term is a portmanteau of a self-reduplicating stem and the reduplication process; the stem agravasse is a hypothetical form created for illustrative purposes in theoretical contexts.

Description and properties: In theory, agravassesagravasses behaves as a single word despite its morphological doubling. The phonotactics and stress pattern depend on the surrounding language system, but the fundamental property is the uninterrupted repetition of the base unit. It is often used to demonstrate how reduplication interacts with morphology, syntax, and word formation in constructed languages or experimental settings.

Attestations and usage: There are no documented occurrences of agravassesagravasses in natural language corpora. The term and its exemplar are primarily used in educational contexts to illustrate extreme cases of reduplication and to explore implications for parsing algorithms in computational linguistics and conlang design.

See also: Reduplication, Full reduplication, Compound word, Constructed language.