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- Title
Reduplication and repetition from a constructionist perspective.
- Authors
Nagaya, Naonori
- Abstract
In the typological literature, a distinction is often drawn between reduplication (as a morphological process) and repetition (as a syntactic process) (Gil 2005). This squib reconsiders this distinction from the perspective of Construction Morphology (Booij 2010, 2018; Masini and Audring 2019). Drawing upon previously understudied phenomena in Tagalog, an Austronesian language of the Philippines, this paper demonstrates that the Construction Morphology approach provides a suitable framework for analyzing reduplication and repetition. It makes it possible to account for both similarities and differences between reduplication and repetition: both processes create a lexical unit with an iterative form and a conventionalized meaning, although they differ in the size and complexity of the lexical unit they create. Furthermore, this paper makes a strong case for the basic tenets of constructionist approaches, including a hierarchical lexicon and a lexicon-grammar continuum.
- Subjects
PHILIPPINES; SOCIAL constructionism; LEXICON; MORPHOLOGY
- Publication
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 1, p259
- ISSN
0774-5141
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/bjl.00051.nag