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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817501503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-69023-2; 9786613667175; 90-272-7455-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Collana: Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 43
• Altri autori (Persone): AbohEnoch Oladé; SmithNorval; Zribi-HertzAnne
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetti: Creole dialects - Morphosyntax; Creole dialects - Morphology; Creole dialects - Syntax; Repetition (Rhetoric)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Reduplication beyond the word level; 1. Introduction; 2. From reduplication to reiteration; 3. Reduplication and iconicity; 4. Iconicity and creole grammars; 5. Is iconic reiteration iconic?; 6. Non-iconic reiteration; 7. Reiteration of functional items; 8. Reiteration and creole languages; 9. The book; References; The morphosyntax of non-iconic reduplications; 1. Introduction; 2. Reduplication in Eastern Gbe; 2.1 Reduplication within the noun phrase; 2.1.1 Some semantic aspects of reduplicated verbal adjectives 2.1.2 Reduplication in OV sequences; 2.1.3 Reduplication in OVV sequences; 3. Extending the analysis to reduplicated verbal adjectives in Gungbe; 4. Reduplicated verbal adjectives in Saramaccan; 4.1 Predicative reduplicated verbal adjectives; 4.2 Predicative reduplicated verbal adjectives as secondary predicates; 4.3 Prenominal reduplicated verbal adjectives; 5. Lexicalized nominal forms; 5.1 The derivation of verbal ; nouns in Eastern Gbe; 5.2 The structure of (O)VV "Gerunds" again; 5.3 English verbal nominalizations; 6. Conclusion; References Verb focus in Haitian; 1. Introduction; 2. VFD in Haitian: A descriptive update; 2.1 Properties shared by all VFD constructions in Haitian; 2.1.1 Lexical doubling and extraction: (X) L1 + [TP. ...... [V0 L2].......]; 2.1.2 Primary stress; 2.1.3 Focus; 2.2 Distinguishing VFD subtypes; 2.2.1 The Bare-VFD subtype; 2.2.2 Factive VFD; 2.2.3 Causative VFD; 2.2.4 Temporal VFD; 2.2.5 Predicate Cleft; 2.2.5.1 Argument-Cleft and Predicate-Cleft.; 2.2.5.2 Bare VFD and Predicate-Cleft.; 2.2.5.3 Predicate Cleft and sentence negation.; 2.2.5.4 The clausal determiner la.; 2.2.6 Descriptive summary; 3. In search of a syntactic analysis 3.1 Laying out the issues; 3.2 The Cognate Object assumption (Bernabé 1983); 3.3 The Event-Argument assumption (Manfredi 1993; Lefebvre 1998); 3.4 The Parallel-Chain Theory (Koopman 1997; Aboh & Dyakonova 2009); 3.5 The Contrastive-Doubler theory; 3.5.1 Deriving VFD from low contrastive V-reiteration; 3.5.2 In search of a formal analysis; 4. Concluding assumptions; References; Verb doubling in Breton and Gungbe; 1. Introduction; 2. Analytic construction with ober, 'do'; 2.1 Syntactic properties of verbal head fronting; 2.2 Setting aside vP focalisation; 3. Analytic construction with doubling 3.1 Verb doubling as a subcase of analytic construction; 3.2 Information packaging; 4. Idiosyncracy of verb reiteration; 4.1 Variation in doubling verbs; 4.2 A typologically unique situation; 4.3 Theoretical analyses for syntactic doubling; 5. A postsyntactic morphological level; 5.1 Not in syntax; 5.2 Pre-Tense vs. post-Tense infinitives: not in the lexicon; 5.3 Not in phonology; 5.4 A Morphological operation: Obligatory exponence in morphology; 6. LEIT-reduplication in Gungbe; 6.1 Last-resort; 6.2 Hierarchical scale; 7. Conclusions; References; NN Constructions in Modern Hebrew
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Breton alongside five chapters on creole languages (Surinam creole, Haitian, Mauritian, São Tomé and Pitchi), this volume brings counter-evidence to the claim that reiteration phenomena are particularly typical of creoles. And by exploring the syntax of reiteration alongside its morphology