The morphosyntax of reiteration in Creole and non-Creole languages / edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith, Anne Zribi-Hertz.

This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and B...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Aboh, Enoch Oladé, Smith, Norval, Zribi-Hertz, Anne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Series:Creole language library ; v. 43.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reduplication beyond the word level : a cross linguistic view / Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith & Anne Zribi-Hertz
  • The morphosyntax of non-iconic reduplications: a cast study in eastern Gbe and Surinam creole / Enoch O. Aboh & Norval Smith
  • Verb focus in Haitian: from lexical reiteration to predicate cleft / Harby Claude & Anne Zribi-Hertz
  • Verb doubling in Breton and Gungbe: obligatory exponence at the sentence level / Mélanie Jouitteau
  • NN constructions in modern Hebrew / Dana Cohen
  • Attenuative verbal reduplication in Mauritian: a morph-semantic approach / Fabiola Henri
  • Reduplication in São Tomense: issues at the syntax-semantics interface / Emmanuel Schang
  • Reiteration in Pichi: forms, functions and areal-typological perspectives / Kofi Yakpo.