Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse

by Rita Finkbeiner (Editor), Ulrike Freywald (Editor)

Overview

Most scholars define reduplication as a formally restricted grammatical process, neatly distinguishing it from 'mere' repetition as a discoursal option. However, there is a fuzzy grey area between the two processes that has rarely been explored so far. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of exact repetition, understood broadly as the systematic iteration of one and the same linguistic item within relatively close syntactic proximity, is investigated from a number of angles. The volume contains studies from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and deals with a broad range of languages, including alleged 'reduplication avoiders'. In bringing together different theoretical perspectives, phenomenological domains, and methodologies, and in linking the fields of syntax and discourse to those of morphology and morphophonology, the volume provides new insights into the structure and meaning of exact repetition phenomena, and, more generally, into their status within a theory of language. The collection will appeal to formally and functionally oriented scholars from all subfields of linguistics, including typology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110589986
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	09/24/2018
Series:	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , #323
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rita Finkbeiner, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany; Ulrike Freywald, Universität Potsdam, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Part I Setting the Scene: Forms and Functions of Repetition

Exact repetition or total reduplication? Exploring their boundaries in discourse and grammar Ulrike Freywald Rita Finkbeiner 3

Function vs form - On ways of telling repetition and reduplication apart Thomas Stolz Nataliya Levkovych 29

The derivational nature of reduplication and its relation to boundary phenomena Thomas Schwaiger 67

Part II Exact Repetition in Grammar

Reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language Vadim Kimmelman 91

A brief overview of total reduplication in Modern Japanese Christoph Petermann 110

Affixation or compounding? Reduplication in Standard Chinese Yanyan Sui 127

Fixer-uppers. Reduplication in the derivation of phrasal verbs Anke Lensch 158

Turkish doubled verbs as doubled TPs Betül Erbasi 182

Cognate objects in language variation and change Matthias Eitelmann Britta Mondorf 200

Part III Exact Repetition in (Discourse) Pragmatics

The lexical clone: Pragmatics, prototypes, productivity Laurence R. Horn 233

Sentence-peripheral Coordinative Reduplication in German: A pragmatic view Rita Finkbeiner 265

Focus on repetition: On the role of focus and repetition in echo questions Claudia Poschmann 295

Repetition versus implicatures and presuppositions Chris Cummins 329

Exact repetition in Tojol-ab'al Maya Mary Jill Brody 350

An analysis of two forms of verbal mimicry in troubles talk conversations between strangers and friends Kaitlin Cannava Graham D. Bodie 366

Language Index 389

Subject Index 391