Reduplication
Reduplication
Cheryl Zoll, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This groundbreaking study takes a novel approach to reduplication, a phenomenon whereby languages use repetition to create new words. Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll present a new model of reduplication--Morphological Doubling Theory --that derives the full range of reduplication patterns. This approach argues for a theoretical shift in phonology that entails more attention to word structure.
- Provides the broadest empirical coverage to date of reduplicative phenomena
- Integrates phonology and morphology (previously morphology was largely ignored)
- Provides a much-needed critique of current theories of reduplication
Reviews & endorsements
'… [Inkelas and Zoll] should … be applauded for their discussion and analysis of both classic and less well-known reduplication patterns. Calling the field's attention to some of these sources of data and the importance of specific patterns is invaluable.' Journal of Linguistics
'I regard this book as a valuable and stimulating contribution to the revived study of reduplication. It is surely a must for every scholar who wants to come to grips with reduplication - no matter what his/her theoretical convictions are …' Language Typology and Universals
Product details
March 2005Hardback
9780521806497
280 pages
229 × 152 × 19 mm
0.58kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Evidence for morphological doubling
- 3. Morphologically conditioned phonology in reduplication: the daughters
- 4. Morphologically conditioned phonology in reduplication: the mother node
- 5. Morphologically-driven opacity in reduplication
- 6. Case-studies
- 7. Final issues.
