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- Title
The derivational nature of reduplication: Towards a Functional Discourse Grammar account of a non-concatenative morphological process.
- Authors
Schwaiger, Thomas
- Abstract
This article advances a first systematic Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) treatment of reduplication. Building on cross-linguistic arguments for reduplication's iconic motivation and non-concatenative derivational nature, principled advantages of FDG's functional-typological orientation over formal reduplicative models are programmatically demonstrated: Reduplication is differentiated from repetition in FDG's architecture, the basics for implementing reduplicative iconicity into the model are outlined, and several formalizations of the process based on existing FDG work on morphological derivation are suggested. Phonological characteristics of reduplication are mentioned briefly and mostly left for future FDG research.
- Subjects
REDUPLICATION (Linguistics); INFLECTION (Grammar); FUNCTIONAL discourse grammar; DISCOURSE analysis; FUNCTIONAL linguistics
- Publication
Word Structure, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 1, p118
- ISSN
1750-1245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/word.2018.0118