Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse /

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

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 phenom...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bodie, Graham D.,
Brody, Mary Jill,
Cannava, Kaitlin,
Cummins, Chris,
Eitelmann, Matthias,
Erbaşı, Betül,
Finkbeiner, Rita,
Freywald, Ulrike,
Horn, Laurence R.,
Kimmelman, Vadim,
Lensch, Anke,
Levkovych, Nataliya,
Mondorf, Britta,
Petermann, Christoph,
Poschmann, Claudia,
Schwaiger, Thomas,
Stolz, Thomas,
Sui, Yanyan,
HerausgeberIn:
Finkbeiner, Rita,
Freywald, Ulrike,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 323
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 394 p.)
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Table of 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
  • Function vs form – On ways of telling repetition and reduplication apart
  • The derivational nature of reduplication and its relation to boundary phenomena
  • Part II: Exact Repetition in Grammar
  • Reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language
  • A brief overview of total reduplication in Modern Japanese
  • Affixation or compounding? Reduplication in Standard Chinese
  • Fixer-uppers. Reduplication in the derivation of phrasal verbs
  • Turkish doubled verbs as doubled TPs
  • Cognate objects in language variation and change
  • Part III: Exact Repetition in (Discourse) Pragmatics
  • The lexical clone: Pragmatics, prototypes, productivity
  • Sentence-peripheral Coordinative Reduplication in German: A pragmatic view
  • Focus on repetition: On the role of focus and repetition in echo questions
  • Repetition versus implicatures and presuppositions
  • Exact Repetition in Tojol-ab’al Maya
  • An analysis of two forms of verbal mimicry in troubles talk conversations between strangers and friends
  • Language Index
  • Subject Index

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