Studies on Reduplication / / ed. by Bernhard Hurch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Abraham, Werner,; Bakker, Peter,; Downing, Laura J.,; Dressler, Wolfgang U.,; Dziubalska-Koiaczyk, Katarzyna,; Gagarina, Natalia,; Gil, David,; Haugen, Jason D.,; Hurch, Bernhard,; Inkelas, Sharon,; Keane, Elinor,; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne,; Kouwenberg, Silvia,; Kulikov, Leonid,; LaCharité, Darlene,; Leroy, Marie,; Maas, Utz,; Mattes, Veronika,; Mc Laughlin, Fiona,; Morgenstern, Aliyah,; Nelson, Nicole,; Parkvall, Mikael,; Pfau, Roland,; Rose, Françoise,; Rubino, Carl,; Shaw, Patricia A.,; Shibasaki, Reijirou,; Singh, Rajendra,; Sofu, Hatice,; Steinbach, Markus,; Urbanczyk, Suzanne,; Wilbur, Ronnie Β.,; Zarka, Dina El,
• HerausgeberIn: Hurch, Bernhard,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.) :; Num. ill. and tab.

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...

Table of Contents

• i-iv
• Editorial Preface
• Contents
• Introduction
• Reduplication: Form, function and distribution
• From repetition to reduplication in Riau Indonesian
• Morphological Doubling Theory: Evidence for morphological doubling in reduplication
• The Emergence of the Marked: Tone in some African reduplicative systems
• Reduplication and consonant mutation in the Northern Atlantic languages
• Wrong side reduplication is epiphenomenal: Evidence from Yoruba
• Non-adjacency in Reduplication
• Enhancing contrast in reduplication
• Phrasal reduplication and dual description
• Reduplication in Modern Hindi and the theory of reduplication
• On the grammaticalization of verbal reduplication in Japanese
• Reduplicative allomorphy and language prehistory in Uto-Aztecan
• Reduplication in Tupi-Guarani languages: Going into opposite directions
• On the borderline of reduplication: Gemination and other consonant doubling in Arabic morphology
• Syntactic reduplication in Arabic
• Reduplication in the Vedic verb: Indo-European inheritance, analogy and iconicity
• Reduplication in child language
• Reduplication before age two
• Acquisition of reduplication in Turkish
• Reduplication in Pidgins and Creoles
• Less is more: Evidence from diminutive reduplication in Caribbean Creole languages
• Intensity and diminution triggered by reduplicating morphology: Janus-faced iconicity
• Backward and sideward reduplication in German Sign Language
• A reanalysis of reduplication in American Sign Language
• List of keywords
• List of languages
• List of contributors