Studies on reduplication / edited by Bernhard Hurch with editorial assistance of Veronika Mattes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hurch, Bernhard.

Mattes, Veronika.

Series:

Empirical approaches to language typology ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Reduplication.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Inflection.

Physical Description:

ix, 640 p. : ill., map.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For several reasons, mostly inherent to the different developments of generative grammar, an increasing number of publications have dealt with reduplication in the past 20 years. Reduplication lends itself perfectly as a test field for theories that opt for a non-segmental organization of phonology and morphology. As it happens frequently, then, the discussion centers around a rather small set of data for which alternative analysis are offered, and which themselves are intended to contribute to the foundation of new theoretical developments. The present volume (which goes back to a conference on reduplication at the University of Graz, Austria) offers a broader approach to reduplication not only from different theoretical viewpoints, but especially for its phenomenology. Across theories a number of highly qualified authors deal with formal and functional perspectives, with typological properties, with semantics, comparative issues, the role of reduplication in language acquisition, the acquisition of reduplicative systems, sign languages, creoles and pidgins, general grammatical and cognitive principles; the picture is completed by a series of language or language-family specific studies as on Uto-Aztecan, Salish, Tupi-Guarani, Moroccan and Cairene Arabic, various African languages, Chinese, Turkish, Indo-European, languages from India, etc. The overall scope of the conference was to contribute to a new level of discussion of the phenomenon, across theories and across specializations and interests. Update on Contributor's addresses (PDF)

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editorial Preface / Hurch, Bernhard / Mattes, Veronika

Contents

Introduction / Hurch, Bernhard

Reduplication: Form, function and distribution / Rubino, Carl

From repetition to reduplication in Riau Indonesian / Gil, David

Morphological Doubling Theory: Evidence for morphological doubling in reduplication / Inkelas, Sharon

The Emergence of the Marked: Tone in some African reduplicative systems / Downing, Laura J.

Reduplication and consonant mutation in the Northern Atlantic languages / Mc Laughlin, Fiona

Wrong side reduplication is epiphenomenal: Evidence from Yoruba / Nelson, Nicole

Non-adjacency in Reduplication / Shaw, Patricia A.

Enhancing contrast in reduplication / Urbanczyk, Suzanne

Phrasal reduplication and dual description / Keane, Elinor

Reduplication in Modern Hindi and the theory of reduplication / Singh, Rajendra

On the grammaticalization of verbal reduplication in Japanese / Shibasaki, Reijirou

Reduplicative allomorphy and language prehistory in Uto-Aztecan / Haugen, Jason D.

Reduplication in Tupi-Guarani languages: Going into opposite directions / Rose, Françoise

On the borderline of reduplication: Gemination and other consonant doubling in Arabic morphology / Zarka, Dina El

Syntactic reduplication in Arabic / Maas, Utz

Reduplication in the Vedic verb: Indo-European inheritance, analogy and iconicity / Kulikov, Leonid

Reduplication in child language / Dressler, Wolfgang U. / Dziubalska-Koiaczyk, Katarzyna / Gagarina, Natalia / Kilani-Schoch, Marianne

Reduplication before age two / Leroy, Marie / Morgenstern, Aliyah

Acquisition of reduplication in Turkish / Sofu, Hatice

Reduplication in Pidgins and Creoles / Bakker, Peter / Parkvall, Mikael

Less is more: Evidence from diminutive reduplication in Caribbean Creole languages / Kouwenberg, Silvia / LaCharité, Darlene

Intensity and diminution triggered by reduplicating morphology: Janus-faced iconicity / Abraham, Werner

Backward and sideward reduplication in German Sign Language / Pfau, Roland / Steinbach, Markus

A reanalysis of reduplication in American Sign Language / Wilbur, Ronnie Β.

List of keywords

List of languages

List of contributors

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110911466

3110911469

OCLC:

840440842