Studies on Reduplication

ISBN-13: 9783110181197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 649 str.

Bernhard Hurch; Veronika Mattes; Bernhard Hurch

Opis

Although a rather marginal phenomenon in Indo-European languages, in most other language families reduplication plays an important role in the organization of morphology. The repetition of (some part of) a word or stem or affix frequently expresses plurality, distributivity, intensity, a verbal aspect and aktionsart, but also diminution, attenuation, or others. This volume collects a series of articles which in a fertile discussion go beyond the limits of single theories and offer treatments of the most different aspects from formal and functional perspectives, semantics, morphology, and phonology, in different fields of linguistics (sign language, language acquisition, comparative studies), as well as original studies of a wide range of languages from different parts of the world.

Recenzje

"[...] the book is not to be missed by those who wish to be updated on the latest advancements in the field of reduplication."Haritini Kallergi in: Linguistics 4/2007 "In the indroduction, Bernhard Hurch provides a detailed summary of the articles publishesd in Studies on reduplication - which thus almost fulfils the function of a review article itself! [...] I strongly recommend this collection of articles to all students of reduplication, morphology, phonology and related subject matters."Thomas Stolz in: STUF 3/2007

O autorze

Bernhard Hurch is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the Karl-Franznes-Universität, Graz, Austria.