Total Reduplication : : The Areal Linguistics of a Potential Universal / / Thomas Stolz, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze.

Total reduplication is a widely common phenomenon in human languages. Nevertheless, it has not gained sufficient attention among linguists. This monograph demonstrates that the comparative study of total reduplication challenges the traditional notion of linguistic universal. Contrary to the belief...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin : : Akademie Verlag, , [2012]
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Année de publication:2012
Langue:English
Collection:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 8
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Table des matières:
  • Front Matter
  • Part A: How to approach total reduplication
  • Part A: How to approach total reduplication
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part A: How to approach total reduplication
  • 2. What is reduplication?
  • Part A: How to approach total reduplication
  • 3. History
  • Part A: How to approach total reduplication
  • 4. Universal vs. areal
  • Part A: How to approach total reduplication
  • 5. Grammar, grammaticalisation and functions
  • Part B: Total reduplication – the Maltese experience
  • Part B: Total reduplication – the Maltese experience
  • 6. TR in Maltese – an in-depth case study. 6.1. On quantities
  • Part B: Total reduplication – the Maltese experience
  • 6.2. Qualities. 6.3. Maltese TR – final words
  • Part C: Total reduplication – the European perspective
  • Part C: Total reduplication – the European perspective
  • 7. TR in Europe: What is Europe? What are European languages?
  • Part C: Total reduplication – the European perspective
  • 8. European quantities
  • Part C: Total reduplication – the European perspective
  • 9. European qualities
  • Part D: What does total reduplication teach us?
  • Part D: What does total reduplication teach us?
  • 10. Behind TR
  • Part D: What does total reduplication teach us?
  • Back Matter