Reduplication: Doubling in Morphology

by Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll

Book Overview

This groundbreaking new study takes a novel approach to reduplication, a phenomenon whereby languages use repetition to create new words. Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll argue that the driving force in reduplication is identity at the morphosyntactic, not the phonological level, and present a new model of reduplication - Morphological Doubling Theory - that derives the full range of reduplication patterns. This approach shifts the focus away from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521114500
• ISBN13: 9780521114509
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"