Studies On Reduplication (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology)
Contributors: Veronika Mattes (Contributor); Bernhard Hurch (Editor)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: December 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9783110181197
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Reduplication; Grammar; Communication; Linguistics; Grammar, Comparative and general
First sentence: The systematic repetition of phonological material within a word for semantic or grammatical purposes is known as reduplication, a widely used morphological device in a substantial number of the languages spanning the globe.