Total Reduplication

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The Areal Linguistics of a Potential Universal

Thomas Stolz Cornelia Stroh Aina Urdze(Author)

De Gruyter Akademie Forschung (Publisher)

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Published on 30. October 2012

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Cover
Title page
Copyright
Table of contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part A How to approach total reduplication
1. Introduction
2. What is reduplication?
2.1. What the handbooks say.
2.1.1. .those which address the general public
2.1.2 .those which address the morphologist
2.2. Glimpses of reduplication theory
2.3. Towards the prototype
2.3.1. The linguistic sign
2.3.2. Problematic deviations
2.3.2.1. Form-only/form-first
2.3.2.2. An interlude
2.3.2.3. Semantics
2.3.3. The prototype
2.3.3.1. Completeness
2.3.3.2. Exactness
2.3.3.3. Contiguity
2.3.3.4. Continuity
2.3.3.5. Complexity
2.3.3.6. Relative position
2.3.3.7. Sundry issues
2.3.3.7.1. Recursive reduplication
2.3.3.7.2. Empty reduplications
2.3.3.7.3. Geminates
2.3.3.8. The TR-PR cline
2.3.3.9. Constructions
2.3.3.9.1. Ideophones
2.3.3.9.2. Cognate objects
2.3.3.9.3. Correlatives
2.3.3.10. The prototype and its acolytes
3. History
3.1. Wilhelm von Humboldt
3.2. Völkerpsychologie I: Steinthal and Misteli
3.3. Doppelung - the classic text by Pott
3.4. The Neogrammarians
3.5. Beside the mainstream: Finck, von der Gabelentz, the Neophilologists, and Dr.Mieck
3.6. Pott in a nutshell: Brandstetter and Trombetti
3.7. Völkerpsychologie II: Wundt, Cassirer, and Kainz
3.8. Being prejudiced about reduplication - a summary
4. Universal vs. areal
4.1. What is counted (out)?
4.1.1. Word-hood
4.1.2. Productivity
4.1.3. Sources
4.1.4. Sample size, density and choice of varieties
4.2. What is universal about a universal?
4.2.1. The potential universal and beyond
4.2.2. When is a universal realised?
4.3. World-wide distribution and omnicompatibility
4.4. Areal matters
5. Grammar, grammaticalisation and functions
5.1. Pragmatics vs. grammar - a rather fuzzy boundary
5.2. Grammaticalisation
5.2.1. Functional equivalence
5.2.1.1. Equivalence across languages
5.2.1.2. Degrees of grammaticalisation within the same language
5.2.2. Is there a TR & PR cline?
5.2.3. Where does TR come from?
5.2.3.1. The contact model
5.2.3.2. The compound model
5.2.3.3. The contraction model
5.2.3.4. Spontaneity model
5.2.3.4.1. TR in Creoles
5.2.3.4.2. TR in child language
5.2.3.4.3. Iconicity
5.2.3.4.4. One homogeneous categorial landscape?
5.3. Before we go on.
Part B Total reduplication - the Maltese experience
6. TR in Maltese - an in-depth case study
6.1. On quantities
6.1.1. The first sub-corpus
6.1.2. The second sub-corpus
6.2. Qualities
6.2.1. Word class membership
6.2.1.1. Adjectives
6.2.1.2. Nouns
6.2.1.3. Adverbs
6.2.1.4. Verbs
6.2.1.5. Numerals
6.2.2. Complexity and formal issues
6.2.2.1. Phonology
6.2.2.2. Morphology and syntax (plus grammatical categories)
6.2.2.2.1. Nouns
6.2.2.2.2. Adjectives
6.2.2.2.3. Adverbs
6.2.2.2.4. Verbs
6.2.2.2.5. Numerals
6.2.2.3. Complex reduplicands
6.2.3. Functions
6.2.3.1. Intensification
6.2.3.2. Excursus on hafna
6.2.3.3. Absoluteness
6.2.3.4. Secondary predication and adverbialisation
6.2.3.5. Duration
6.2.3.6. Prolative
6.2.3.7. Distributive
6.2.3.8. Lexicalisation
6.2.3.9. Excursus
6.2.4. Some syntactic observations
6.3. Maltese TR - final words
Part C Total reduplication - the European perspective
7. TR in Europe: What is Europe? What are European languages?
8. European quantities
8.1. TR in Le Petit Prince
8.1.1. Frequencies in Le Petit Prince: tokens
8.1.1.1. Token frequency and genealogy
8.1.1.2. The geography of token frequency
8.1.2. Types
8.2. Quantities in Harry Potter
8.2.1. Expected and attested numbers
8.2.2. The cartography of the Harry Potter statistics
8.3. Control sample
8.4. European quantities - addenda, corrigenda and sundry matters
8.4.1. Border disputes in the East
8.4.2. More evidence of TR in the South
8.4.3. In the Far West: the Celtic fringe
8.4.4. The North and the Centre: Where TR is not at home
8.4.5. The European map revised, refined and extended
9. European qualities
9.1. Word class membership of reduplicands
9.1.1. Adjectives
9.1.2. Nouns
9.1.3. Adverbs
9.1.4. Verbs
9.1.5. Numerals
9.1.6. Other
9.2. Constraints on reduplicability
9.2.1. Complexity and related issues
9.2.1.1. Phonology
9.2.1.2. Morphology and morphosyntax
9.2.1.2.1. Nouns
9.2.1.2.2. Adjectives
9.2.1.2.3. Adverbs
9.2.1.2.4. Verbs
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9.2.1.2.5. Numerals
9.2.1.2.6. Other
9.2.1.3. Complex reduplicands
9.2.2. Loanwords
9.3. Functional domain of European TR
9.3.1. Intensification
9.3.2. Absoluteness/exactness/identity
9.3.3. Adverbialisation and secondary predication
9.3.4. Durative (and related categories)
9.3.5. Prolative
9.3.6. Distributive
9.3.7. Other
9.4. Lexicalisation
9.5. European TR: qualities in nuce
Part D What does total reduplication teach us?
10. Behind TR
10.1. A new look at reduplication
10.1.1. TR vs. coordination
10.1.2. Shrinking constructions?
10.1.3. Doubling or copying?
10.2. Areal matters
10.2.1. Europe and its next door neighbours
10.2.2. Contact
10.3. Cross-linguistics
10.3.1. Universals and types
10.3.2. Problemzonen - where the problems are lurking.
10.3.2.1. Again on dots, their numbers and their colours
10.3.2.2. Wrong and right representatives
10.3.2.3. Secondary choices
10.3.2.4. Towards the idiolect
10.3.2.5. A methodological cul-de-sac
10.4. Look back and ahead
Appendix
References
Sources
Index of authors
Index of languages
Index of subjects

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