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- Title
Pragmatic Dimensions of Macedonian Object Reduplication.
- Authors
Prendergast, Eric
- Abstract
The article discusses object reduplication in the Macedonian language. Particular focus is given to patterns of object reduplication which do not conform to standard grammatical rules. According to the author, important elements constraining this phenomenon include information packaging and pragmatic markedness. It is suggested that reduplication with definite direct objects and all indirect objects are associated with these constraints. Other topics include discourse structuring and multilingualism.
- Subjects
REDUPLICATION (Linguistics); MACEDONIAN language; DIRECT object (Grammar); MULTILINGUALISM; GRAMMAR; INDIRECT object (Grammar)
- Publication
Balkanistica, 2012, Vol 25, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
0360-2206
- Publication type
Article