Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse / Rita Finkbeiner, Ulrike Freywald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finkbeiner, Rita, editor.

Freywald, Ulrike, editor.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; Volume 323.

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 323

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Reduplication.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Most scholars define reduplication as a formally restricted grammatical process, neatly distinguishing it from 'mere' repetition as a discoursal option. However, there is a fuzzy grey area between the two processes that has rarely been explored so far. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of exact repetition, understood broadly as the systematic iteration of one and the same linguistic item within relatively close syntactic proximity, is investigated from a number of angles. The volume contains studies from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and deals with a broad range of languages, including alleged 'reduplication avoiders'. In bringing together different theoretical perspectives, phenomenological domains, and methodologies, and in linking the fields of syntax and discourse to those of morphology and morphophonology, the volume provides new insights into the structure and meaning of exact repetition phenomena, and, more generally, into their status within a theory of language. The collection will appeal to formally and functionally oriented scholars from all subfields of linguistics, including typology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Contributors

Part I: Setting the Scene: Forms and Functions of Repetition

Exact repetition or total reduplication? Exploring their boundaries in discourse and grammar / Freywald, Ulrike / Finkbeiner, Rita

Function vs form - On ways of telling repetition and reduplication apart / Stolz, Thomas / Levkovych, Nataliya

The derivational nature of reduplication and its relation to boundary phenomena / Schwaiger, Thomas

Part II: Exact Repetition in Grammar

Reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language / Kimmelman, Vadim

A brief overview of total reduplication in Modern Japanese / Petermann, Christoph

Affixation or compounding? Reduplication in Standard Chinese / Sui, Yanyan

Fixer-uppers. Reduplication in the derivation of phrasal verbs / Lensch, Anke

Turkish doubled verbs as doubled TPs / Erbaşı, Betül

Cognate objects in language variation and change / Eitelmann, Matthias / Mondorf, Britta

Part III: Exact Repetition in (Discourse) Pragmatics

The lexical clone: Pragmatics, prototypes, productivity / Horn, Laurence R.

Sentence-peripheral Coordinative Reduplication in German: A pragmatic view / Finkbeiner, Rita

Focus on repetition: On the role of focus and repetition in echo questions / Poschmann, Claudia

Repetition versus implicatures and presuppositions / Cummins, Chris

Exact Repetition in Tojol-ab'al Maya / Brody, Mary Jill

An analysis of two forms of verbal mimicry in troubles talk conversations between strangers and friends / Cannava, Kaitlin / Bodie, Graham D.

Language Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

9783110590128

3110590123

9783110592498

3110592495

OCLC:

1057244450