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Reduplication at the Word Level : The Greek Facts in Typological Perspective.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studia Typologica [STTYP] SeriesPublisher: Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (466 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110365597
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reduplication at the Word LevelDDC classification:
  • 489.32
LOC classification:
  • LB1139.L3 C6424 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- List of Conventions -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Object of study and preliminaries -- 1.1.1 The word -- 1.1.2 Theoretical background and framework -- 1.2 Aims and structure of the thesis -- 1.3 "False friends": types of reduplication not considered in this study -- 1.3.1 Accidental and pseudo-reduplication -- 1.3.2 Reduplication in sound symbolism and onomatopoeic wordformation -- 1.3.3 Morphophonological reduplication with alternation -- 1.3.4 Reduplication at the syntactic level -- 1.3.4.1 "Syndetic" repetition/reduplication -- 1.3.4.2 Word repetition at level of the clause -- 1.3.4.3 Repetition across clauses -- 1.4 Summary -- Part I: Review of the literature -- 2 Overview of the Greek literature: how TR is presented in Greek studies, grammars and dictionaries -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Studies on TR and similar phenomena in Greek -- 2.2.1 Terminology and objects of study -- 2.2.2 Status of X X unit in the grammar/status of TR as process in the language -- 2.2.3 Relation of TR with repetition, emphasis and pragmatics -- 2.2.4 Meanings and functions of TR -- 2.2.5 Restrictions/formal and lexical characteristics of TR -- 2.2.6 Evolution and origin of TR -- 2.2.7 Summary -- 2.3 TR in Modern Greek grammars -- 2.3.1 Terminology -- 2.3.2 Domains of reference -- 2.3.3 Meanings and functions of TR -- 2.3.4 Restrictions/formal and lexical features of bases -- 2.3.5 Summary -- 2.4 TR in Modern Greek dictionaries -- 2.4.1 The lemma: nature and structure -- 2.4.2 Citation of and subcategorization information on TR expressions -- 2.4.3 The form of TR expressions: the hyphen -- 2.4.4 Criteria for listing TR expressions -- 2.4.5 TR in old and small-range dictionaries -- 2.4.6 TR in recent dictionaries -- 2.4.7 Some inconsistencies -- 2.4.8 Summary.
3 TR from a theoretical and typological perspective -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Theoretical models on reduplication -- 3.2.1 Full-Copy Theory (Steriade 1988) -- 3.2.2 Base-Reduplicant Correspondence Theory (McCarthy &amp -- Prince 1995) -- 3.2.3 Reduplication in Precedence-Based Phonology (Raimy 2000, 2009) -- 3.2.4 Morphological Doubling Theory (MDT, Inkelas &amp -- Zoll 2005) -- 3.2.5 Minimal Reduplication (Kirchner 2010) -- 3.2.6 Forza (2011) -- 3.2.7 Brief evaluation of theoretical models -- 3.3 TR in studies of other languages -- 3.3.1 Terminology and definition -- 3.3.2 Status -- 3.3.3 Restrictions/Formal and lexical characteristics-correlations -- 3.3.4 Meanings/functions and the semantic core of TR -- 3.3.5 Relation with emphasis, repetition and pragmatics -- 3.3.6 Origin and evolution -- 3.4 TR from a typological perspective -- 3.4.1 Terminology and definition -- 3.4.2 Status -- 3.4.3 Semantics and semantic motivation of (T)R -- 3.4.4 Relation of TR with emphasis and pragmatics -- 3.4.5 Universality, areality and distribution -- 3.4.6 Constraints on/structural characteristics of TR in Europe -- 3.4.7 Origin of TR in Europe -- 3.4.8 MG within Europe and the world -- 3.5 Summary -- Part II: Data and types of TR in MG -- 4 Word classes and the functions/meanings of TR: correlations, constraints and preferences -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Word classes and functional types of TR: assumptions and empirical data -- 4.2.1 Correlations of TR in MG with word classes and their basic properties: the Sentence Completion Task (SCT) -- 4.2.1.1 Specific hypotheses -- 4.2.1.2 Methodology -- 4.2.1.2.1 The sentences -- 4.2.1.2.2 The TR instances -- 4.2.1.2.3 The material -- 4.2.1.3 Results and discussion -- 4.2.1.3.1 Nouns: number and its interaction with semantic type ("concrete vs. abstract") -- 4.2.1.3.2 Verbs: direct vs. indirect speech -- 4.2.1.3.3 Person.
4.2.1.3.4 Mood -- 4.2.1.3.5 Imperative verbs: the role of aspect -- 4.2.1.4 Summary of results -- 4.3 Constraints/preferences by word class -- 4.3.1 The input to TR: constraints and preferences -- 4.3.1.1 Morphology -- 4.3.1.1.1 Nouns -- 4.3.1.1.2 Verbs -- 4.3.1.1.3 Adjectives -- 4.3.1.1.4 Adverbs -- 4.3.1.2 Semantics -- 4.3.1.2.1 Nouns -- 4.3.1.2.2 Verbs -- 4.3.1.2.3 Adjectives and adverbs -- 4.3.1.2.4 Numerals -- 4.3.1.2.5 Pronouns and other minor/functional classes -- 4.3.1.3 Syntax -- 4.3.1.3.1 Nouns, adjectives and numerals -- 4.3.1.3.2 Verbs -- 4.3.1.3.3 Adverbs -- 4.3.2 The output of TR: constraints and tendencies -- 4.3.2.1 Syntax -- 4.3.2.1.1 Nouns, adjectives and numerals -- 4.3.2.1.2 Verbs -- 4.3.2.1.3 Adverbs -- 4.3.2.2 Semantic change and lexicalization -- 4.3.2.2.1 Nouns -- 4.3.2.2.2 Verbs -- 4.3.2.2.3 Adjectives -- 4.3.2.2.4 Adverbs -- 4.3.2.2.5 Pronouns -- 4.4 Summary and conclusions: the functional types of TR in MG -- 5 Phonological aspects - the role of intonation in TR in MG -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 The role of intonation in the MG literature on TR -- 5.1.2 The role of intonation in TR of other languages -- 5.1.3 Summary of assumptions -- 5.2 Hypotheses and research questions of the phonological experiment -- 5.3 Methodology -- 5.4 Quantitative and qualitative results -- 5.4.1 CR (Contrastive Reduplication) -- 5.4.2 INT (Intensification/Intensive) -- 5.4.3 DISTR (Distributive) -- 5.4.4 ITER (Iterative/Iterativity) -- 5.4.5 REP (Repetition) -- 5.4.6 Iconic repetition (repetition of a thought in a situation of searching) -- 5.5 Discussion and conclusions -- Part III: The status and distribution of TR in MG -- 6 The status of TR in MG -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Grammatical or lexical meaning? -- 6.3 Assessment of the status of TR in MG on the basis of meaning.
6.4 Characteristics of grammatical classes (and the status of TR as a border-liner) -- 6.5 Wälchli's (2005) proposal for borderline phenomena: lexical class types -- 6.5.1 Total Reduplication as a lexical class in Modern Greek -- 6.5.2 Disadvantages of/problems with the analysis of TR as a lexical class -- 6.6 Conclusions -- 7 TR vs. other types of lexical and/or grammatical formations -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Collocations -- 7.3 Idioms -- 7.3.1 Typical idioms -- 7.3.2 Constructional idioms or Constructions (Fillmore et al. 1988 -- Jackendoff 1997, 2002) -- 7.3.3 Phrasal lexemes -- 7.4 Grammatical constructions (Croft 2001) -- 7.5 Compounds -- 7.6 Conclusions -- 8 Functional equivalences and the semantic/ pragmatic distribution of TR -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Intensive (or intensification in a broad sense) -- 8.2.1 Intensifying TR of adjectives (/adverbs) -- 8.2.1.1 TR vs. intensifying prefixation (olo-, ?eo-, kata-) -- 8.2.1.2 TR vs. modification by polí 'very' -- 8.2.1.3 The elative/absolute superlative: para polí/-tatos 'most/extremely' -- 8.2.2 Intensifying TR of verbs -- 8.2.2.1 TR vs. intensifying verbal morphology -- 8.2.2.2 TR vs. modification by polí 'much' -- 8.2.3 Contrastive TR of nouns -- 8.2.3.1 Contrastive TR of nouns vs. augmentative suffixation -- 8.2.3.2 CR vs. nouns modified by polí 'very' -- 8.2.3.3 CR vs. focus stress on the definite article (ep?tas? ??????) -- 8.2.4 Conclusion of section 8.2 -- 8.3 The distributive: introduction -- 8.3.1 TR of nouns vs. distributive quantifiers and other distributive constructions -- 8.3.1.1 Functional equivalences with ka?e 'every' and o ka?e 'each' -- 8.3.2 TR of numerals vs. distributive quantifiers and other distributive constructions -- 8.3.3 Conclusion of section 8.3 -- 8.4 The iterative -- 8.4.1 TR of imperative verbs vs. subjunctive subordinate clauses and converbs.
8.4.1.1 TR vs. forms in -ondas -- 8.4.2 Summary and conclusion of section 8.4 -- 9 Conclusions and issues for further research -- 9.1 Summary of conclusions from chapters 2-8 -- 9.2 Further implications and answers to some general questions -- 9.3 Issues for further research -- References -- Appendix A: The meanings/functions of Total Reduplication crosslinguistically: a list -- Appendix B: The Sentence Completion Task -- Appendix C: The phonological experiment: the texts and divergent intonation patterns -- Appendix D: A typology of reduplicative idioms and "syndetic" reduplication constructions in MG -- Appendix E: Glossary of TR expressions in this dissertation -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- List of Conventions -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Object of study and preliminaries -- 1.1.1 The word -- 1.1.2 Theoretical background and framework -- 1.2 Aims and structure of the thesis -- 1.3 "False friends": types of reduplication not considered in this study -- 1.3.1 Accidental and pseudo-reduplication -- 1.3.2 Reduplication in sound symbolism and onomatopoeic wordformation -- 1.3.3 Morphophonological reduplication with alternation -- 1.3.4 Reduplication at the syntactic level -- 1.3.4.1 "Syndetic" repetition/reduplication -- 1.3.4.2 Word repetition at level of the clause -- 1.3.4.3 Repetition across clauses -- 1.4 Summary -- Part I: Review of the literature -- 2 Overview of the Greek literature: how TR is presented in Greek studies, grammars and dictionaries -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Studies on TR and similar phenomena in Greek -- 2.2.1 Terminology and objects of study -- 2.2.2 Status of X X unit in the grammar/status of TR as process in the language -- 2.2.3 Relation of TR with repetition, emphasis and pragmatics -- 2.2.4 Meanings and functions of TR -- 2.2.5 Restrictions/formal and lexical characteristics of TR -- 2.2.6 Evolution and origin of TR -- 2.2.7 Summary -- 2.3 TR in Modern Greek grammars -- 2.3.1 Terminology -- 2.3.2 Domains of reference -- 2.3.3 Meanings and functions of TR -- 2.3.4 Restrictions/formal and lexical features of bases -- 2.3.5 Summary -- 2.4 TR in Modern Greek dictionaries -- 2.4.1 The lemma: nature and structure -- 2.4.2 Citation of and subcategorization information on TR expressions -- 2.4.3 The form of TR expressions: the hyphen -- 2.4.4 Criteria for listing TR expressions -- 2.4.5 TR in old and small-range dictionaries -- 2.4.6 TR in recent dictionaries -- 2.4.7 Some inconsistencies -- 2.4.8 Summary.

3 TR from a theoretical and typological perspective -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Theoretical models on reduplication -- 3.2.1 Full-Copy Theory (Steriade 1988) -- 3.2.2 Base-Reduplicant Correspondence Theory (McCarthy &amp -- Prince 1995) -- 3.2.3 Reduplication in Precedence-Based Phonology (Raimy 2000, 2009) -- 3.2.4 Morphological Doubling Theory (MDT, Inkelas &amp -- Zoll 2005) -- 3.2.5 Minimal Reduplication (Kirchner 2010) -- 3.2.6 Forza (2011) -- 3.2.7 Brief evaluation of theoretical models -- 3.3 TR in studies of other languages -- 3.3.1 Terminology and definition -- 3.3.2 Status -- 3.3.3 Restrictions/Formal and lexical characteristics-correlations -- 3.3.4 Meanings/functions and the semantic core of TR -- 3.3.5 Relation with emphasis, repetition and pragmatics -- 3.3.6 Origin and evolution -- 3.4 TR from a typological perspective -- 3.4.1 Terminology and definition -- 3.4.2 Status -- 3.4.3 Semantics and semantic motivation of (T)R -- 3.4.4 Relation of TR with emphasis and pragmatics -- 3.4.5 Universality, areality and distribution -- 3.4.6 Constraints on/structural characteristics of TR in Europe -- 3.4.7 Origin of TR in Europe -- 3.4.8 MG within Europe and the world -- 3.5 Summary -- Part II: Data and types of TR in MG -- 4 Word classes and the functions/meanings of TR: correlations, constraints and preferences -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Word classes and functional types of TR: assumptions and empirical data -- 4.2.1 Correlations of TR in MG with word classes and their basic properties: the Sentence Completion Task (SCT) -- 4.2.1.1 Specific hypotheses -- 4.2.1.2 Methodology -- 4.2.1.2.1 The sentences -- 4.2.1.2.2 The TR instances -- 4.2.1.2.3 The material -- 4.2.1.3 Results and discussion -- 4.2.1.3.1 Nouns: number and its interaction with semantic type ("concrete vs. abstract") -- 4.2.1.3.2 Verbs: direct vs. indirect speech -- 4.2.1.3.3 Person.

4.2.1.3.4 Mood -- 4.2.1.3.5 Imperative verbs: the role of aspect -- 4.2.1.4 Summary of results -- 4.3 Constraints/preferences by word class -- 4.3.1 The input to TR: constraints and preferences -- 4.3.1.1 Morphology -- 4.3.1.1.1 Nouns -- 4.3.1.1.2 Verbs -- 4.3.1.1.3 Adjectives -- 4.3.1.1.4 Adverbs -- 4.3.1.2 Semantics -- 4.3.1.2.1 Nouns -- 4.3.1.2.2 Verbs -- 4.3.1.2.3 Adjectives and adverbs -- 4.3.1.2.4 Numerals -- 4.3.1.2.5 Pronouns and other minor/functional classes -- 4.3.1.3 Syntax -- 4.3.1.3.1 Nouns, adjectives and numerals -- 4.3.1.3.2 Verbs -- 4.3.1.3.3 Adverbs -- 4.3.2 The output of TR: constraints and tendencies -- 4.3.2.1 Syntax -- 4.3.2.1.1 Nouns, adjectives and numerals -- 4.3.2.1.2 Verbs -- 4.3.2.1.3 Adverbs -- 4.3.2.2 Semantic change and lexicalization -- 4.3.2.2.1 Nouns -- 4.3.2.2.2 Verbs -- 4.3.2.2.3 Adjectives -- 4.3.2.2.4 Adverbs -- 4.3.2.2.5 Pronouns -- 4.4 Summary and conclusions: the functional types of TR in MG -- 5 Phonological aspects - the role of intonation in TR in MG -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 The role of intonation in the MG literature on TR -- 5.1.2 The role of intonation in TR of other languages -- 5.1.3 Summary of assumptions -- 5.2 Hypotheses and research questions of the phonological experiment -- 5.3 Methodology -- 5.4 Quantitative and qualitative results -- 5.4.1 CR (Contrastive Reduplication) -- 5.4.2 INT (Intensification/Intensive) -- 5.4.3 DISTR (Distributive) -- 5.4.4 ITER (Iterative/Iterativity) -- 5.4.5 REP (Repetition) -- 5.4.6 Iconic repetition (repetition of a thought in a situation of searching) -- 5.5 Discussion and conclusions -- Part III: The status and distribution of TR in MG -- 6 The status of TR in MG -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Grammatical or lexical meaning? -- 6.3 Assessment of the status of TR in MG on the basis of meaning.

6.4 Characteristics of grammatical classes (and the status of TR as a border-liner) -- 6.5 Wälchli's (2005) proposal for borderline phenomena: lexical class types -- 6.5.1 Total Reduplication as a lexical class in Modern Greek -- 6.5.2 Disadvantages of/problems with the analysis of TR as a lexical class -- 6.6 Conclusions -- 7 TR vs. other types of lexical and/or grammatical formations -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Collocations -- 7.3 Idioms -- 7.3.1 Typical idioms -- 7.3.2 Constructional idioms or Constructions (Fillmore et al. 1988 -- Jackendoff 1997, 2002) -- 7.3.3 Phrasal lexemes -- 7.4 Grammatical constructions (Croft 2001) -- 7.5 Compounds -- 7.6 Conclusions -- 8 Functional equivalences and the semantic/ pragmatic distribution of TR -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Intensive (or intensification in a broad sense) -- 8.2.1 Intensifying TR of adjectives (/adverbs) -- 8.2.1.1 TR vs. intensifying prefixation (olo-, ?eo-, kata-) -- 8.2.1.2 TR vs. modification by polí 'very' -- 8.2.1.3 The elative/absolute superlative: para polí/-tatos 'most/extremely' -- 8.2.2 Intensifying TR of verbs -- 8.2.2.1 TR vs. intensifying verbal morphology -- 8.2.2.2 TR vs. modification by polí 'much' -- 8.2.3 Contrastive TR of nouns -- 8.2.3.1 Contrastive TR of nouns vs. augmentative suffixation -- 8.2.3.2 CR vs. nouns modified by polí 'very' -- 8.2.3.3 CR vs. focus stress on the definite article (ep?tas? ??????) -- 8.2.4 Conclusion of section 8.2 -- 8.3 The distributive: introduction -- 8.3.1 TR of nouns vs. distributive quantifiers and other distributive constructions -- 8.3.1.1 Functional equivalences with ka?e 'every' and o ka?e 'each' -- 8.3.2 TR of numerals vs. distributive quantifiers and other distributive constructions -- 8.3.3 Conclusion of section 8.3 -- 8.4 The iterative -- 8.4.1 TR of imperative verbs vs. subjunctive subordinate clauses and converbs.

8.4.1.1 TR vs. forms in -ondas -- 8.4.2 Summary and conclusion of section 8.4 -- 9 Conclusions and issues for further research -- 9.1 Summary of conclusions from chapters 2-8 -- 9.2 Further implications and answers to some general questions -- 9.3 Issues for further research -- References -- Appendix A: The meanings/functions of Total Reduplication crosslinguistically: a list -- Appendix B: The Sentence Completion Task -- Appendix C: The phonological experiment: the texts and divergent intonation patterns -- Appendix D: A typology of reduplicative idioms and "syndetic" reduplication constructions in MG -- Appendix E: Glossary of TR expressions in this dissertation -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects.

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