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Schlindwein, Debbie. "Reduplication in Lexical Phonology: Javanese Plural Reduplication." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227238.
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Hendricks, Sean Q. "Reduplication without template constraints: A study in bare-consonant reduplication." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288948.
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Recent analyses in reduplication have questioned the viability of template constraints to account for reduplicant shape in Optimality Theory. Such template constraints require the mapping of a reduplicant to prosodic unit such as the foot, syllable, or mora. Such template constraints make incorrect predictions regarding the types of reduplicative patterns and incorrectly match morphological types to prosodic types. The alternative is to eliminate template constraints and allow the shape of reduplicants to be determined by more general structural constraints in language. In this dissertation, I make two major contributions to this body of work. One major contribution is the presentation of data regarding bare-consonant reduplication (Semai, Marshallese. Coushatta, Yokuts, Secwepemc). In this data, reduplicants surface as a copy of a single consonant (C) (eg. Marshallese yibbiqen 'chunky (distributive)') or a string of two consonants (CC) (eg. Yokuts giy'igyifta 'touch repeatedly'). The reduplicants in these data are not clearly delimited by a prosodic unit, and therefore, provide support for the position that template constraints are not only undesirable, but empirically inadequate. The second contribution to this body of work is an alternative method of analysis that accounts for reduplicant shapes by the interaction of constraints that are independently necessary to account for the ordering of morphemes in a morphologically-complex form. Under this proposal, reduplicants are "compressed" between morphemes and the edges of the morphological word. This compression model uses constraints of the Generalized Alignment schema of constraints (McCarthy & Prince 1993b). The model is more empirically adequate than alternative a-templatic analyses. The compression model is extended to cases of reduplication in which the reduplicant is not a consistent prosodic unit across a paradigm (Hopi). Also this model is shown to be adequate to account for cases of reduplication that are more transparently matched to a prosodic unit (Ilokano). Such extensions of the compression model make predictions about types of non-concatenative morphology that have empirical evidence.
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Novotna, Jana. "Reduplication in Swahili." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91703.
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The aim of this article is to deal with reduplication in Swahili. In phase I, we pay attention to the process of reduplication as such, i.e., we try to define this phenomenon and we determine the scope of our study. The core of phase II is constituted by the examination of formal properties of reduplication in Swahili. Phase III contains the investigation of the phenomenon in question from the functional perspective. In the next phase, we concentrate on the so-called `pseudoreduplication` since we are convinced that this feature of Swahili morphology is quite important in relation to reduplication. The last phase is devouted to the analysis of a set of concrete examples from a work of fiction which illustrates the issues discussed in previous phases.
Although this study is intended to be an intralanguage one, we do not restrain omselves from occassional interlanguage comparisons since it is our belief that any contrastive comparison can contribute to a better understanding of the phenomenon concerned. The synchronic point of view is applied throughout the whole study.
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Sherrard, Nicholas Richard. "Blending and reduplication." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343575.
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Evans, James, and Ben Bosman. "Shuswap Diminutive Reduplication." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621204.
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Hendricks, Sean. "Shuswap Diminutive Reduplication." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227249.
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Sun, Jingtao. "Reduplication in Old Chinese." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ48725.pdf.
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Haugen, Jason D. "Reduplication in Distributed Morphology." University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/143067.
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The two extant approaches to reduplication in Distributed Morphology (DM) are: (i) the readjustment approach, where reduplication is claimed to result from a readjustment operation on some stem triggered by a (typically null) affix; and (ii) the affixation approach, where reduplication is claimed to result from the insertion of a special type of Vocabulary Item (i.e. a reduplicative affix–“reduplicant” or “Red”) which gets inserted into a syntactic node in order to discharge some morphosyntactic feature(s), but which receives its own phonological content from some other stem (i.e. its “base”) in the output. This paper argues from phonologically-conditioned allomorphy pertaining to base-dependence, as in the case of durative reduplication in Tawala, that the latter approach best accounts for a necessary distinction between “reduplicants” and “bases” as different types of morphemes which display different phonological effects, including “the emergence of the unmarked” effects, in many languages. I also defend a blended model of DM which incorporates a constraint-based Correspondence Theoretic vision of Phonological Form. In this model the syntax builds morphological structure as per standard DM assumptions, which in turn leads to local and cyclic restrictions on allomorph selection, as argued in Embick (2010). I argue contra Embick (2010), however, that the phonology must be an essential part of the grammar in order to account for surface form-oriented (or “output-centered”) prosodic morphology such as reduplication and mora affixation. In this model, the output of Morphological Structure serves as an input into PF, which I construe as Optimality Theoretic tableaux as in Correspondence Theory, thus accounting for surface-oriented phonological copying effects like base-dependence.
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Spring, Cari. "Marshallese Single Segment Reduplication." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227253.
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Börstell, Carl. "Revisiting Reduplication : Toward a description of reduplication in predicative signs in Swedish Sign Language." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63510.
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This study investigates the use of reduplication with predicative signs in Swedish Sign Language (SSL), and also the related phenomena doubling and displacement. Reduplication in SSL typically expresses plurality of events and/or referents, but may also express intensification, ongoing event or generic activity. There is a distinction between external and internal events with reduplication: external reduplication expresses some event happening over and over at different points in time and/or with different referents, and is associated with a frequentative/habitual reading; internal reduplication expresses some event consisting of several e.g. movements/actions and is associated with an ongoing reading. Only external expression seems to be applicable to stative constructions, as one would expect. The study also found a phenomenon not previously described: oral reduplication without manual reduplication. This process is found to have the ongoing functions with telic predicates, such that it focuses on the telic predicate as a single event in progress, and thus replaces the function of manual reduplication, which, with telic predicates, would instead express several events. The reading of reduplicated signs is associated with the semantics of the sign reduplicated, and it is also associated with the phonological citation form of the sign—monosyllabic signs tend to get pluractional reading; bisyllabic signs tend to get an ongoing reading. Also, the reading expressed by reduplication is connected to the presence/absence of oral reduplication. Reduplication generally does not occur in negative constructions. This study shows that inherently negative signs may be reduplicated, but reduplicated predicates are negated according to other strategies than for non-reduplicated predicates, thus reduplication has the largest scope. Doubling and displacement are both associated mainly with plural referents, and it is in this respect that they are related to reduplication, and they both occur frequently with reduplication.
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Urbancyzk, Suzanne. "Patterns of reduplication in Lushootseed /." New York [u.a.] : Garland, 2021. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/00052079.html.
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Hayakawa, Haruko. "The semantics of reduplication in Japanese." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/138302.
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In this thesis, the author will examine some properties that
characterise Japanese reduplicative nouns having plural referents which
have not received adequate attention in the past.
The author will also investigate some reduplicative adverbs in
order to illustrate the semantic features they have in common with noun
reduplication.
The reduplicative forms dealt with here are the reduplication of a
noun, of SONO (that) plus a noun and of a single number plus its
numeral classifier.
Throughout this thesis, the co-occurrence of numerals with each
reduplicative form is examined so that the latter's semantic properties
may be further ascertained.
The most common semantic features observed in these reduplicative
forms is 1. indiscreteness, which in this thesis is when the referents
are part of something which cannot be separated from the place in which
they are, and are not often separated from each other, 2. variety, that
is, a difference in the referents in that they are different kinds of
things, or they belong to the same kind of thing but are distinguished by people as being different and 3. stress on impressions, on
subjecti.ve perception of the phenomena in question.
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Coleman, Jason. "Thesis shmesis representing reduplication with directed graphs /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1482.
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Zukoff, Sam 1987. "Indo-European reduplication : synchrony, diachrony, and theory." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113772.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The reduplicative systems of the ancient Indo-European languages are characterized by an unusual alternation in the shape of the reduplicant. The related languages Ancient Greek, Gothic, and Sanskrit share the property that root-initial consonant clusters exhibit different reduplicant shapes, depending on their featural composition. Moreover, even though the core featural distinction largely overlaps across the languages, the actual patterns which instantiate that distinction are themselves distinct across the languages. For roots beginning in stop-sonorant clusters (TRVX- roots), each of these languages agrees in displaying a prefixal CV reduplicant, where the consonant corresponds to the root-initial stop: TV-TRVX-. These three languages likewise agree that roots beginning in sibilant-stop clusters (STVX- roots) show some pattern other than the one exhibited by TRVXroots. However, each of the three languages exhibits a distinct alternative pattern: V-STVX- in the case of Ancient Greek, STV-STVX- in the case of Gothic, TV-STVX- in the case of Sanskrit. This dissertation provides an integrated synchronic and diachronic theoretical account of the morphophonological properties of verbal reduplication in the ancient Indo-European languages, with its central focus being to explain this core alternation between TRVX- roots and STVX- roots. Set within Base-Reduplicant Correspondence Theory, a framework for analyzing reduplication in Optimality Theory, the comprehensive synchronic analyses constructed in service of understanding this distinction and other interrelated distinctions allow us to probe complex theoretical questions regarding the constraints and constraint interactions involved in the determination of reduplicant shape. This dissertation seeks not only to develop in depth, consistent accounts of both the productive and marginal/archaic morphophonological aspects of reduplication in the Indo-European languages, it aims to understand the origins of these patterns - from a historical and comparative perspective, and from the perspective of morphophonological learning and grammar change - and attempts to motivate the conditions for the onset, development, and retention of the changes that result in the systems observed in the attested languages. As such, these analyses constitute a valuable set of case studies on complex systemic change in phonological grammars.
by Sam Zukoff.
Ph. D. in Linguistics
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Saperstein, Andrew D. "A word-and-paradigm approach to reduplication /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487947501134055.
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Haugen, Jason D. "Toward an OT Account of Yaqui Reduplication." University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/226604.
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Spring, Cari. "Reduplication as Copy: Evidence from Axininca Campa." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227259.
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Kennedy, Robert A. "Confluence in phonology: Evidence from Micronesian reduplication." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280362.
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This dissertation explores the phonological systems of Micronesian languages, in search of patterns that are consistent throughout the family and others that are unique to subgroups and individual languages. Using data from Pohnpeian, Mokilese, Pingilapese, Puluwat, Chuukese, Woleaian, Marshallese, and Kosraean, the study focuses on reduplicative morphology as an illustrative window into the phonology of each language. Each language is treated with an Optimality-Theoretic analysis, and consequently the phonology of each is attributed to the same set of principles. However, as a whole, the analyses cannot explain the existence of common and unique patterns within the family. A model of language change called Confluence is presented in order to account for typological trends among related languages. The model acknowledges that learners of languages settle on a grammar based on ambient data; thus, the acquired grammar should approximate the grammar that produces the ambient data. However, a number of perceptual and articulatory factors have the result that the set of data that the learner perceives is unlike the set of data that the ambient grammar would predict. As a consequence, the learner's grammar may differ from that of the ambient grammar. Because of the inclusion of perceptual and articulatory biases in the model, Confluence predicts several outcomes. First, a particular pattern might be resistant to change, or the same innovation might be likely to occur independently in different languages, and either way it is an observable property of otherwise divergent languages. Second, two or more co-occurring grammatical traits of a particular language can be shown to have a common source. Each of the predictions of Confluence is supported in the language analyses. Examples of robust patterns include coda consonant restrictions, moraic feet, and bimoraic reduplicative prefixes. Two examples of recurring innovations are the introduction of final vowel deletion and the avoidance of initial geminate consonants in favor of some other structure. Phonological patterns that co-occur in a principled manner include geminate inventories and morpheme alignment, foot structure and final vowel lenition, and a cluster of properties that consists of length contrasts, word maximality, morpheme alignment, and segment inventories.
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Lee, Amy Pei-jung. "A typological study on reduplication in Formosan languages." Thesis, University of Essex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437142.
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Gooden, Shelome A. "The phonology and phonetics of Jamaican Creole reduplication." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1070485686.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xxiv, 297 p. ; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-297).
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Meek, B. A. "Augmentation and Correspondence: A Reanalysis of Nancowry Reduplication." University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311826.
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Peng, Long. "Swati and Kikuyu Reduplication: Evidence Against Exhaustive Copy." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227263.
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Two intriguing properties of reduplicative affixes are that they are invariant in shape or weight and that their segmental makeup is dependent upon the base to which they are attached. Previous autosegmental explanations of shape- invariance and base- dependent melody adopt two mechanisms: i) a skeletal template to account for the consistency in weight and ii) a copying mechanism that transfers base segmental content into a reduplicative template (Marantz 1982, Broselow and McCarthy 1984, and Levin 1985). These accounts have since come under attack for a number of reasons. One major criticism concerns the unconstrained nature of templates; in, principle., any string of skeletal slots can be licensed as a template under these earlier accounts (Clements 1985, McCarthy and Prince 1986, 1987, and Steriade 1988). As a means of coping with this problem, McCarthy and Prince (1986, 1987) propose that reduplicative affixes be characterised by prosodically defined templates: i) core syllables (ad, ii) light syllables (σ(μ)), iii) heavy syllables (σ(μμ)), iv) syllables (σ), v) bimoraic feet (F(μμ)), vi) iambic feet (F(μμμ)), vii) disyllabic feet (F(σσ)), and viii) prosodic words. An important contribution of prosodic templates is that they establish prosodic constituency as a criterion for constraining templates, for a unit that does not correspond to a prosodic constituent can never be licenced as a reduplicative template. In addition, McCarthy and Prince (1986, 1987) exploit a copying mechanism. Copying can take two forms: i) an entire sequence of base segmental melody can be targeted for copying; or ii) a portion of it can be targeted for copying as long as that portion is prosodically defined or "circumscribed" (McCarthy and Prince 1990). In either case, copying is selective in that it excludes suprasegmental structures. Hence, I will refer to this model as Selective Copy. In contrast with Selective Copy, Steriade (1988) puts forward a different prosodic model of reduplication. Within her model, shape- invariance results from an interplay of weight and syllable markedness parameters. Among the weight parameters are: i) light syllables, ii) monosyllabic feet, iii) bimoraic feet, iv) disyllabic feet. These weight parameters differ from prosodic templates posited by Selective Copy. They are not templates that possess independent prosodic structures even though they are stated in terms of prosodic units that specify which prosodic constituent is targeted as the reduplicant. This conception of weight parameters forces a different copying apparatus. Copying must be exhaustive: it must target both the segmental melody and the prosodic structure of the base. This is critical; without the prosodic constituents of the base, weight parameters cannot select which unit of the copied base to retain as the reduplicant. In the following, I will refer to this model as Exhaustive Copy. This brief contrast demonstrates two radical differences between Selective Copy and Exhaustive Copy: i) templates vs. parameters and ii) selective vs. exhaustive copying. These differences impose a further contrast in expressing insertion of base - independent melody. Whereas insertion can make reference to the prosodic units of a template with Selective Copy, it cannot rely on parameters with Exhaustive Copy. Insertion can and must be defined by an existing prosodic structure of the base. This distinction becomes significant in examining Swati diminutive reduplication, which shows a base-independent vowel a in its reduplicant. What is important about this melody is that it is present only when a base cannot supply sufficient segmental content for a foot-sized reduplicant lingi-lingis 'resemble a little' vs. goba-gob 'bend a little'. The question addressed here is whether or not these two proposals can express a insertion. I demonstrate that a insertion cannot be formally stated by Exhaustive Copy. Crucial to the argument is that an insufficient base is lacking not only in segmental melody but also in prosodic constituency essential for defining the locus of insertion. Motivation for an insertion treatment takes two steps. First, internal evidence from passive formations suggests that i functions as the default vowel -not a. Second, this a behaves in Kikuyu like an architypical instance of "prespecification" in that it overrides any vowel in the base. As mentioned in footnote 4, Kikuyu and Swati are both members of the Bantu family. Moreover, reduplication as a diminutive marker is an important and widespread property of Bantu morphology (Meinhof 1932). This suggests that Swati a should be treated on a par with Kikuyu a since it cannot be filled in by default. The layout of this paper is as follows. Section 1 contrasts the two models of reduplication through examples from Tagalog. Section 2 applies Selective Copy to an account of Kikuyu and Swati reduplication. In particular, I demonstrate that Swati a requires an insertion treatment in consideration of both internal and external evidence. Section 3 spells out the argument against Exhaustive Copy from Swati a. In Section 4, I discuss some further implications of the templatic vs. parametric opposition for an overall theory of morphology. The critical point emerging from this discussion is that morphological processes such as Semitic roots and Japanese hypocoristics require access to templates; the parametric approach falls short on this score.
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Jaafar, Sharifah Raihan Syed. "Prefixation and reduplication in Malay : an optimality-theoretical account." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.587529.
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This thesis investigates the morphology-phonology interface in Malay. The work is largely a corpus-based reanalysis of prefixation and reduplication. Based on two large different written corpora of Standard Malay (henceforth SM), the analysis permits us to make reliable and robust generalizations about how the language actually works. The data reveal that the language has a distinct co-existing phonological system. I will show that these co-existent grammars can be handled with Optimality Theory (henceforth OT), specifically in co-phonologies. The reanalysis of prefixation places Malay in a wider context and examines, cross-linguistically, issues related to voicing and nasality. It is shown that nasal substitution, which is regularly used to eliminate nasal and voiceless obstruent clusters, fails to occur in some prefixed words. In the analysis, I propose that non- native words are not subject to the same phonological requirements as those imposed on native words. The constraint rankings must therefore be different from those found in native words which result in the blocking of nasal substitution at prefix-root junctures, The application of nasal substitution at prefix-prefix junctures is mainly determined by morphological factors rather than phonetic factors, due to a morphology-phonology interface constraint, i.e. EDGE-INTEGRITY. The investigation of reduplication deals with total, partial and affixal reduplication. A recent theory of prosodic morphology - namely the Morpheme- Based Template or MBT (Downing 2006), motivated within OT (Prince & Smolensky 1993) - is applied to organize the morphological and prosodic factors that condition the size of prosodic morphemes (ibid.: 1). In the analysis, I propose that total and affixal reduplication are best treated as compounding, rather than affixation, due to the disyllabic minimality condition. Considering the Perak dialect, light and heavy reduplication have been captured by associating each morphological construction with a different co-phonology. This study also examines dialectal variation, comparing'~ with three non- standard dialects with respect to prefixation. The analysis discovers some significant facts about the language. Since both voiceless/voiced obstruents undergo nasal- substitution, the *NC constraint has been replaced by a CRISP-EDGE[δ] constraint. Nasal deletion and nasalisation are also the strategies used to eliminate nasal and voiceless obstruent clusters. The different strategies applied can be satisfactorily explained in OT with its variable constraint rankings.
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Spring, Cari Louise. "Implications of Axininca Campa for prosodic morphology and reduplication." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185227.
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This dissertation examines Axininca Campa within the tenets of the emerging theory of Prosodic Morphology. Axininca reduplication can only be formalized as a process where the prosodic word is built on the verbal base and duplicated. Thus Axininca shows that the prosodic word is a legitimate base of morphology, contrary to earlier views which allow only the foot as the base. The properties of the output of reduplication in Axininca show that no affix is required in formalizing Axininca reduplication; this finding refutes previous models which standardly assume that an affix is required as a formal component of reduplication. Comparing reduplication in other languages with that in Axininca reveals that copy is the only necessary component of 'reduplication'; an affix and/or prosodic base are each possible but are not obligatory. In examining the cases of reduplication formalized with and without a prosodic base, a new formalization of copy as a base dependent process is set forth. When a prosodic base is selected, copy of the base consists of copy of that prosodic constituent and all subordinate elements; the result is that the reduplicant displays quantity transfer. When no prosodic base is selected the segments of the base alone copy and the reduplicant therefore does not display quantity transfer. The model reported here predicts four sub-types of reduplication in language: (1) -affix, -prosodic base, (2) -affix, +prosodic base, (3) +affix, -prosodic base, (4) +affix, +prosodic base. Each type of reduplication in 1-4 is predicted to display specific empirical properties converging on the base and the reduplicant, thus resulting in a very testable theory. Whenever a prosodic base is selected the base of reduplication must meet prosodic requirements and at the same time the reduplicant will display base transfer; when no affix is also selected (as in 2) the reduplicant will surface as an identical copy of the prosody and segments of the base. When an affix is selected the redupilcant must conform to the prosodic specifications of the affix. When neither an affix nor base is selected all the segments of the morphological base copy.
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Wong, Yam-man Wendy. "Reduplication in the early lexical development of Cantonese-speaking children." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36207706.
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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2000."A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, May 10, 2000." Also available in print.
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Takeda, Kazue. "Causative Formation in Kammu: Prespecified Features and Single Consonant Reduplication." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227292.
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Danford, Richard K. "Preverbal accusatives, pronominal reduplication, and information packaging : a diachronic analysis of Spanish /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402957196957.
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Berry, Lynn Maree. "Alignment and Adjacency in Optimality Theory: evidence from Warlpiri and Arrernte." University of Sydney, Linguistics, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/383.
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The goal of this thesis is to explore alignment and adjacency of constituents in the framework of Optimality Theory. Under the notion of alignment, certain categories, prosodic and morphological, are required to correspond to certain other categories, prosodic or morphological. The alignment of categories is achieved through the operation of constraints which evaluate the wellformedness of outputs. The constraints on the alignment of categories and the ranking of these constraints are examined with emphasis on two Australian languages, Warlpiri and Arrernte. The aim is to provide an adequate account in the theory of Optimality of the processes of stress, reduplication and vowel harmony evident in the data. The thesis expands on the range of edges for the alignment of feet. Foot alignment is developed to account for the fact that the edges of intonational phrases, morphemes, and specific morphemes, as well as phonologically specific syllables, play an active role in determining the location of feet. An additional finding is that the location of feet can also be determined by adjacency, resolving conflict between morphological alignment, and ensuring rhythmic harmony. Requirements on adjacency are further supported to account for segmental harmony, where harmony provides evidence for the simultaneous action of segmental and prosodic processes. The analysis provides a unified account of binary and ternary rhythm recommending modifications to alignment of certain categories, thereby laying the groundwork to deal with variation. The account of variation involves relaxing certain constraints. In addition, the notion of rhythm is expanded to account for onset sensitivity to stress, with evidence of this sensitivity found in reduplication and allomorphy. The interaction of prosodic categories with each other and with morphological categories can be directly captured in OT, providing a unified and coherent account of phenomena, some of which were previously seen as exceptions and, therefore unrelated and arbitrary.
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Berry, Lynn Maree. "Alignment and Adjacency in Optimality Theory: evidence from Warlpiri and Arrernte." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/383.
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The goal of this thesis is to explore alignment and adjacency of constituents in the framework of Optimality Theory. Under the notion of alignment, certain categories, prosodic and morphological, are required to correspond to certain other categories, prosodic or morphological. The alignment of categories is achieved through the operation of constraints which evaluate the wellformedness of outputs. The constraints on the alignment of categories and the ranking of these constraints are examined with emphasis on two Australian languages, Warlpiri and Arrernte. The aim is to provide an adequate account in the theory of Optimality of the processes of stress, reduplication and vowel harmony evident in the data. The thesis expands on the range of edges for the alignment of feet. Foot alignment is developed to account for the fact that the edges of intonational phrases, morphemes, and specific morphemes, as well as phonologically specific syllables, play an active role in determining the location of feet. An additional finding is that the location of feet can also be determined by adjacency, resolving conflict between morphological alignment, and ensuring rhythmic harmony. Requirements on adjacency are further supported to account for segmental harmony, where harmony provides evidence for the simultaneous action of segmental and prosodic processes. The analysis provides a unified account of binary and ternary rhythm recommending modifications to alignment of certain categories, thereby laying the groundwork to deal with variation. The account of variation involves relaxing certain constraints. In addition, the notion of rhythm is expanded to account for onset sensitivity to stress, with evidence of this sensitivity found in reduplication and allomorphy. The interaction of prosodic categories with each other and with morphological categories can be directly captured in OT, providing a unified and coherent account of phenomena, some of which were previously seen as exceptions and, therefore unrelated and arbitrary.
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Ido, Shinji. "VOWEL ALTERNATION IN DISYLLABIC REDUPLICATIVES: AN AREAL DIMENSION." UNIVERSITY OF TARTU PRESS, 2011. http://jeful.ut.ee/vana/.
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Ibirahim, Njoya [Verfasser], and Roland [Akademischer Betreuer] Kießling. "A typology of CI-reduplication in Niger-Congo and beyond / Njoya Ibirahim ; Betreuer: Roland Kießling." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1175092037/34.
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Chen, Shuming. "An optimality-theoretical analysis of syllable structure, stress, tone and reduplication in Taiwan Beijing Mandarin." Thesis, University of Essex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285795.
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Wang, Shih-ping. "Corpus-based approaches and text analysis in relation to sound symbolism, reduplication and fixed expressions." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504533.
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Pollock, Sandybell. "Hindi-Vindi and Pashto-Mashto : Comments on Various Types of Lexical Reduplication in Hindi and Pashto." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-276292.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine potential similarities in Hindi1 and Pashto grammar as regards to the arial feature of lexical reduplication, and to give a brief explanation of the phenomenon. It is my belief that this feature appears in both languages and that it functions in a similar way when it comes to: full reduplication, distribution and partial reduplication, so called echo-words. I will try to explain how these features function in Pashto based on the research already done in Hindi and the limited amount of description found in Pashto grammars that discuss this subject. The object of the paper is to prove that reduplication in Pashto takes similar form with similar meaning to the reduplications found in Hindi. To analyse this I will look at literary language in Hindi and Pashto using examples found in books, grammars, papers of other researchers, as well as examples found online in blogs and on newspaper sites. The first section of this paper will deal with full reduplication of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbials, numerals and participles. It will show that various types of semantic meanings can be derived from reduplication such as intensification, attenuation, continuation or distribution. The second section will deal with partial reduplication and it will show that these also appears in the different word categories mentioned (though apparently not in both languages) and it aims to give an explanation as to what forms these partial reduplications can take, that is, how they are constructed, as well as how they may function.
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Uselytė, Jurgita. "Reduplikuotiniai lietuvių kalbos žodžiai." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050622_122313-86889.
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Reduplication is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated. Reduplication is used both inflectionally to convey a grammatical function, such as plurality, intensification, etc., and derivationally to create new words. It is found in many languages, though its importance and productivity varies. Reduplication is often described phonologically in two different ways: (1) as reduplicated segments (i.e. sequences of consonants/vowels) or (2) as reduplicated prosodic units (i.e. syllables or morae). In addition to phonological description, reduplication often needs to be described morphologically as a reduplication of linguistic constituents (i.e. words, stems, roots). As a result, reduplication is interesting theoretically as it involves the interface between phonology and morphology.
Reduplication often involves copying only once. However, in some languages, reduplication can happen more than once (and thus a duple is not created). Triplication is the term for copying three times (i.e. in Lithuanian language av av av; dū dū dū; bum bum bum; plest plest plest).
Full reduplication involves a reduplication of the entire word (i.e. nunù, riri, rururù, ka-ka). In Lithuanian there are two types of fullreduplication: word reduplication (i.e. baubau, bė́bė; bobõ; būbū), syllable reduplication (i.e. girkšt girkšt, jo jo, kepu kepu).
Partial reduplication involves a reduplication of only part of the word, eg. papákšt (veiksmažodis pakštelėti)... [to full text]
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Leoue, Jean Gilbert. "Nominal Determination: Focus on a Few Operations in Cameroon Pidgin English." Thesis, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71564.
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Based on a contrastive and variationist approach, this research work sheds light on the study of the structure of the Noun Phrase in Cameroon Pidgin English in contrast with Standard British English. Among other relevant topics, the following aspects of the NP are considered: the system of pronouns, nominal anaphora, the system of articles, the deictic implementation, quantification, intensification and reduplication.
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Hulden, Mans. "Finite-state Machine Construction Methods and Algorithms for Phonology and Morphology." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/196112.
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This dissertation is concerned with finite state machine-based technology for modeling natural language. Finite-state machines have proven to be efficient computational devices in modeling natural language phenomena in morphology and phonology. Because of their mathematical closure properties, finite-state machines can be manipulated and combined in many flexible ways that closely resemble formalisms used in different areas of linguistics to describe natural language. The use of finite-state transducers in constructing natural language parsers and generators has proven to be a versatile approach to describing phonological alternation, morphological constraints and morphotactics, and syntactic phenomena on the phrase level.The main contributions of this dissertation are the development of a new model of multitape automata, the development of a new logic formalism that can substitute for regular expressions in constructing complex automata, and adaptations of these techniques to solving classical construction problems relating to finite-state transducers, such as modeling reduplication and complex phonological replacement rules.The multitape model presented here goes hand-in-hand with the logic formalism, the latter being a necessary step to constructing the former. These multitape automata can then be used to create entire morphological and phonological grammars, and can also serve as a neutral intermediate tool to ease the construction of automata for other purposes.The construction of large-scale finite-state models for natural language grammars is a very delicate process. Making any solution practicable requires great care in the efficient implementation of low-level tasks such as converting regular expressions, logical statements, sets of constraints, and replacement rules to automata or finite transducers. To support the overall endeavor of showing the practicability of the logical and multitape extensions proposed in this thesis, a detailed treatment of efficient implementation of finite-state construction algorithms for natural language purposes is also presented.
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Ito, Tatsuya. "Interaction en jeu dans la variation sémantique des unités morpho-lexicales : deux études de cas : l'adjectif bon en français et sa reduplication en japonais." Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100015.
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Cette thèse montre, à travers deux études de cas assez indépendantes, comment la description d'une unité lexicale ou d'une opération morphosyntaxique est indissociable avec l'interaction entre cette unité et son co-texte. La première partie, consacrée à la description de "bon", donne à voir que "bon" adjectif entretient un rapport complexe et bilatéral avec son N. On propose une identité sémantique de "bon", dont les paramètres constitutifs doivent être spécifiés par le co-texte. L'identité sémantique de "bon" peut être déformée par le moulage catégoriel. La seconde partie sur la reduplication en japonais montre que les effets sémantiques variables de cette opération s'obtiennent comme conséquence d'interaction entre le fonctionnement propre de la reduplication et la diversité (sémantique catégorielle et statutaire) de sa base. Les mots à reduplication en japonais correspondent à une représentation complexe permettant une multiple lecture.
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Olsson, Linus. "Form and function of reduplicated nouns in Japanese." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-121568.
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This study investigates the form and function of reduplication in nouns in Japanese. Three main areas were investigated: meaning, morphosyntactic behavior, and register. The study was conducted with informants participating in meetings which were audio recorded. The informants were asked to describe a number of reduplicated nouns belonging to three categories: concrete nouns, abstract nouns, and nouns relating to time. A number of pseudo forms were also included to see if similar patterns could be observed in nouns that did not belong to the regular lexicon. The results were analyzed for possible patterns relating to meaning, morphosyntactic behavior, and register across the three noun categories. Primarily two patterns were observed: 1. the reduplicated forms of concrete nouns tended to have a meaning of plurality and maintain their noun status, and 2. the reduplicated forms of nouns relating to time tended to acquire a sensation of extended time and frequency, and change word class into adverbs. These patterns were not observed as strongly among the pseudo forms. In addition to these patterns, other phenomena were observed among the reduplicated nouns that could not be categorized as belonging to specific patterns and should be investigated in further studies.
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Stachowski, Kamil. "Turkic C- type reduplications." Doctoral thesis, Katowice : Uniwersytet Śląski, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/5456.
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The present book can be viewed as a patchwork of topics relating more or less directly to Turkic reduplications. Many are interconnected and interdependent, which renders it impossible to organize the presentation in a linear way. The thematic division adopted here is only one of the possible groupings, and not necessarily optimal for all tasks. To alleviate this inconvenience, the current chapter first summarizes the whole
following a different thematic division (4.1), and then very briefly recapitualtes what I consider to be the most important conclusions (4.2). Some thoughts are expressed more clearly here than in the previous chapters, where they were lost between auxiliary observations.
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Rakotoalison, Fanjanirina Sylvie. "La réduplication en malgache dans la perspective d'une morphologie comparative des langues de la famille austronésienne." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCF042.
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Cette thèse a trois principaux objets : la description morphologique des mots rédupliqués pour en déduire les différents types de réduplication en malgache, la détermination des différentes fonctions de la réduplication et l'étude des valeurs sémantiques dénotées par la réduplication. Les données puisées dans plusieurs dictionnaires et lexiques malgaches disponibles affirment la productivité et la profusion de ce processus. Ce travail de recherche se propose donc de montrer la place de réduplication dans le lexique malgache, en se basant sur l'analyse morphologique et sémantique. Il met en œuvre deux bases théoriques, à savoir la réduplication typologique (Blust 1998, 2001 et Zeitoun : 1998, 2006) et la réduplication fonctionnant comme affixes (Marantz :1982) et McCarthy et Prince (1999). L'étude est basée sur des relations, des fonctions et des associations, d'où le recours à la morphologie structurale, fonctionnelle et associative en adoptant le rapport d'opposition selon Rajaona (1977, 2004) et le cercle linguistique de Prague et aussi la morphologie associative de Danielle Corbin (1988, 1991, 2004). Les éléments du corpus sont extraits des ouvrages écrits, mais également de documents sonores existants ou que nous avons nous-mêmes collectés. La thèse est divisée en trois parties organisées en sept chapitres. Comme résultats, l'étude du corpusa permis d'identifier au moins neufs types de réduplication, cinq fonctions et vingt-cinq valeurs de la réduplication dans la langue malgache. Dans la conclusion, nous avons aussi évoqué les limites, les applications et les perspectivesThis thesis has three main objects: the morphological description of reduplicated words with a view to deducing the various types of reduplication in Malagasy, determination of the different functions of reduplication and the study of the semantic values provided by the reduplication. The data collected from a number of Malagasy dictionaries and lexicons that are availables how case the productivity and profusion of the process. This research work thus aims to show reduplication’s place in the Malagasy lexicon, based on morphological and semantic analysis. This work is based on two theoretical views: typological reduplication (Blust: 1998, 2001 and Zeitoun: 1998, 2006) and on the other hand partial reduplication which functions as affix (Marantz: 1982) and McCarthy and Prince (1999). This study is based on relations, functions and associations, thus appealing to structural, functional and associative morphology by adopting opposition relationship (according to Rajaona: 1977, 2004 and the linguistic circle of Prague) and Danielle Corbin’s associative morphology (1987, 1991, 2004). Items of the data have been extracted from written work ssuch as dictionaries as well as existing sound materials or materials we have collected ourselves. This thesis is divided into three parts which comprise seven chapters. As results, the morphological and semantic study of the data identified at least nine types of reduplication, five functions and twenty-five values of reduplication in the Malagasy language. In the conclusion, we also discussed limits, applications and perspectives
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Ndione, Augustin. "Contribution à une étude de la différence entre la réduplication et la répétition en Français et en Wolof." Thesis, Tours, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOUR2011/document.
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Cette thèse s’inscrit dans une perspective typologique et porte sur la réduplication et la répétition en français et en wolof (langue du Sénégal). Elle porte sur un procédé linguistique souvent considéré comme marginal pour une langue de grande diffusion comme le français du fait, entre autres, qu’il apparaît à l’oral. L’investigation menée a permis de montrer que ce procédé n’est pas plus employé en wolof, langue à tradition orale, qu’en français puisqu’on réduplique les termes issus des catégories similaires dans les deux langues ; en français par exemple on peut rédupliquer des prénoms (Dédé, Vava, etc.), des noms (salade-salade), des verbes (il pleut-pleut), des adjectifs (joli-joli) et des adverbes (loin-loin), et en wolof, on peut rédupliquer des patronymes (wade-wade), des toponymes (bawol-bawol), des bases lexicales (am-am « possession »), des adverbes (leeg-leeg « souvent ») et des noms (goor-goor-lu « débrouillard »).Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre de la théorie des opérations prédicatives et énonciatives initiée par Cucioli. Ainsi à la suite de Culioli (1990), Kabore (1998), Osu (2007, 2010), cette thèse montre que la réduplication est un procédé qui met en jeu une opération de détermination puisqu'il s'agit de déterminer une occurrence d'un domaine notionnel. Mais nous considérons la juxtaposition des deux composantes de la structure réduplicative comme un marqueur d'opérationlinguistique, au sens culiolien du terme, en essayant de cerner le rôle de chaque composante au sein de cette structure. Dès lors, nous montrons que la première composante de la structure représente une occurence quelconque alors que l deuxième représente l'occurrence représentative du domaine notionnel. Quant à la juxtaposition, son rôle se ramène à identifier l'occurrence représentative, réécrite comme ceci : .Cette hypothèse ébauchée lors de l'étude du français a été reprise et vérifiée à l'épreuve des faits issus du wolof.... Cette thèse a donc permis de poser clairement, que la réduplication fonctionne par un mécanisme invariant, et qu'elle est différente de la répétition même si ces deux procédés ont des points communsThis thesis deals with reduplication and repetition in French and Wolof (an unwritten language spoken in Senegal) in a typological perspective. Reduplication has often been considered to be marginal in a widely spoken language such as French and English. A major reason often given is that it mainly occurs in the spoken form of the language. Our analysis shows that it does not occur more in Wolof than in French, since similar reduplicated categories (nouns, adjectives, verbs etc.) can be found in both languages. In French, for example, one can reduplicate proper names (e.g. Dédé, Vava etc.), nouns (e.g. salade-salade), verbs (e.g. il pleut-pleut), adjectives (e.g. joli-joli) and adverbs (e.g. loin-loin); and in Wolof, one can reduplicate patronyms (e.g. wade-wade) toponyms (e.g. bawol-bawol), lexical tap roots (e.g. am-am ‘possession’), adverbs (e.g. leeg-leeg 'often') and nouns (e.g. goor-goor-lu 'resourceful'). This thesis is realized within the framework of the theory of predicative and enunciative operations (Fr. TOPE) initiated by Culioli. In line with Culioli (1990: 117), Kabore (1998), Osu (2007, 2010), this thesis argues that reduplication is a process that involves the operation of determination. Indeed, it implies that an occurrence of a given notional domain is determined with reference to another occurrence of the domain. in question. In this view, we have regarded the juxtaposition of the two components as a marker of a linguistic operation and outlined the role of each component of the reduplicative structure. Thus, we show that the first component of the structure represents an unspecified occurrence while the second stands for the representative occurrence ofa notional domain. As for the juxtaposition, its role consits of identifying the unspecified occurrence in relation to the representative occurrence, rewritten as follows: . This analysis which was first outlined while studying reduplication in French was then applied to Wolofin the light of facts from this language....This thesis clearly shows that reduplication has an invariant abstract generalizable working mechanism, and that it is quite different from repetition even though the two processes seem to have similar features
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Meek, Barbra, and Sean Hendricks. "Anchoring and Reduplicative Identity: Cases from Nancowry and Koasati." University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311817.
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Poix, Cécile. "Contrastive analysis of lexical neology in a multilingual corpus of children's literature : typology and function of occasionalisms." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2115.
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Cette thèse a pour objet de comprendre ce que représente la néologie dans le contexte de la littérature pour la jeunesse.Pour cela, une typologie des procédés de création lexicale est proposée, pour des occasionnalismes relevés dans un corpus de littérature pour la jeunesse. La taxonomie reprend les matrices lexicogéniques de Jean Tournier [1985] avec trois macro-mécanismes : néologie morphosémantique, sémantique et morphologique. Quatre procédés ont été identifiés dans cette thèse : formation lexicale, déformation lexicale, création lexicale et emprunt. Les innovations lexicales ne se limitent pas à des procédés lexicologiques. Certaines figures de style donnent également lieu à la formation d’occasionnalismes. Les matrices de Tournier ont donc été enrichies pour inclure tous les procédés identifiés par le biais d’un raisonnement inductif dans le cadre d’une étude exploratoire du corpus.Pour les besoins de cette thèse, un corpus de littérature pour la jeunesse a été constitué, comportant des œuvres représentatives des XIX° et XX° siècles en anglais, français, allemand et italien avec leurs traductions dans les trois autres langues. Le corpus comprend plus de neuf millions de mots. Il est aligné, ce qui permet des études contrastives.Cette thèse analyse également la fonction des occasionnalismes (effet sonore, jeu de mots, fonction ostentatoire, anti-naming [une forme de nonsense], hypostatisation, fonction déictique et euphémisme) ainsi que les stratégies de traduction les concernant (selon les procédés de formation des occasionnalismes ou selon la fonction qu’ils occupent dans la langue source).Dans le contexte de la littérature pour la jeunesse, la plupart des occasionnalismes ne sont pas créés pour être vecteurs de sens (ou combler un vide lexical). Ils jouent un rôle métalinguistique et didactique en invitant le lecteur à s’interroger sur les normes linguistiquesThis thesis aims to understand what neology encompasses in the context of children’s literature. To this end, a typology of nonce formations is established to categorise occasionalisms identified in a corpus of children’s books. This classification follows Jean Tournier’s lexicogenic matrices [1985] with three macro-mechanisms: morpho-semantic, semantic and morphological neology. Four nonce formation processes were identified in this study: word formation, word de-formation, word creation and borrowing. Lexical innovations are not confined to lexicological processes. Some occasionalisms result from stylistic features. Thus, Tournier’s matrices were enhanced to include all nonce formation processes following inductive reasoning in a corpus-driven approach.For the purpose of this study a corpus of children’s books was compiled. It includes classics from the 19th and 20th century written in English, French, German and Italian with their translations in the respective languages. The corpus is made of over nine million words. It is aligned to enable contrastive analysis.This thesis also reviews the function of occasionalisms (sound effect, wordplay, attention-seeking device, anti-naming, hypostatization, deictic reference, and euphemism) and their translation (either based on the nonce formation process or reproducing the function in the source language).In the context of children’s literature, most occasionalisms are not coined for the purpose of carrying meaning (or filling a lexical gap). They play a metalinguistic and didactic role, inviting the reader to reflect on linguistic norms
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Coppolani, Marie-Laure. "Changement lexical en nez-percé." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCF024/document.
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La thèse a pour objet le changement lexical en nez-percé, une langue en danger de l'Idaho (États-Unis)dont le nombre de locuteurs natifs est inférieur à quinze et qui est très peu décrite. L'étude comportedeux axes principaux : la description de la formation des noms de la langue et l'analyse des procédéslexicogéniques employés actuellement dans la création des unités lexicales relatives à l'alimentaire. Aprèsune synthèse linguistique qui renseigne sur la phonologie (plus particulièrement les variations engendréespar les procédés lexicogéniques), l'ordre des constituants et les syntagmes nominaux et verbaux, la thèseétudie la réduplication, la composition, la dérivation affixale (plus spécifiquement les dérivations parsuffixation du morphème de l'analogie et des suffixes ayant subis une conversion catégorielle), et lanominalisation. Puis elle traite de la lexicalisation des métonymies et des métaphores. Enfin, elle analyseles procédés qui conduisent à la création du lexique alimentaire de ces trente dernières années eteffectue une comparaison avec les ressources précédemment identifiéesThe doctoral dissertation analyzes the lexical change in nez perce, an endangered language spoken inIdaho (Unites States of America) that counts less than fifteen native speakers and lacks studies inlexicology. The work is divided into two parts : the description of noun formation, and the analysis of thenew food lexicon. After a synthesis on phonology (modifications due to lexical change), on word order,and on the nominal and verbal clauses, the thesis describes reduplication, compounds, the affixalderivation (especially nouns derived by analogical or converted suffixes) and the lexical nominalisation.Moreover, it deals with the lexicalisations of metonymies and metaphors. Then, it analyzes processes thatlead to the creation of the new food lexicon and compares them with the previously identified processesinvolved in the formation of noun
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DAMORA, ALESSIO. "Correlati neurocognitivi della Sindrome di Capgras e della paramnesia reduplicativa per i luoghi." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11566/242319.
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Introduzione
La sindrome di Capgras (CS) è caratterizzata dalla ferma convinzione che una o più persone
familiari, siano state sostituite da impostori, che sono fisicamente molto simili all’originale.
La paramnesia reduplicativa per i luoghi (RP) è caratterizzata dalla convinzione che un luogo sia
stato duplicato, esistendo contemporaneamente in due luoghi.
CS e RP, sono state tradizionalmente considerate come il risultato di un conflitto psicodinamico, ma
in seguito alla descrizione di numerosi casi ad eziologia organica, sono state ipotizzate basi
neuropsicologiche. Il presente studio si propone di chiarire tali ipotesi approfondendo i diversi
domini neuropsicologici.
Materiali e Metodi
Sono stati inclusi 14 pazienti affetti da Demenza con corpi di Lewy (LBD), 14 pazienti con Malattia
di Alzheimer (AD), e 14 soggetti di controllo esenti da patologie neuro-psichiatriche.
Sono stati eseguiti due lavori sperimentali: nell’indagine sulla CS, il gruppo LBD era formato da 8
pazienti con CS e 6 privi di tale sindrome., nell’indagine sulla PR, il gruppo LBD era formato da 7
pazienti con PR e 7 privi di tale sindrome.
La batteria costruita (prove con i volti per l’indagine sulla CS e prove con gli edifici per la PR)
esplora differenti domini neuropsicologici:
Abilità percettive: analizzate attraverso i test di identificazione di genere, identificazione di età,
discriminazione percettiva di volti, associazione di edifici nella stessa prospettiva, associazione di
edifici in prospettiva diversa.
Riconoscimento di familiarità: analizzato attraverso i test di riconoscimento di volti familiari,
discriminazione di volti famosi, riconoscimento di edifici familiari (esternamente), riconoscimento
di edifici familiari (internamente).
Riconoscimento di emozioni del volto (solo per l’indagine sulla CS): studiato attraverso il test di
associazione di emozioni.
Risultati
I pazienti affetti da LBD con CS e PR, rispetto ai soggetti con LBD privi di tali sindromi,
commettono più errori nell’assegnare la familiarità ai volti ed edifici.
(differenza statisticamente significativa).
Diversamente, non sono state riscontrate differenze significative nelle prestazioni dei soggetti affetti
da LBD con CS e PR, rispetto ai soggetti privi di deliri, nelle prove che esplorano le abilità
visuopercettive e il riconoscimento di emozioni del volto.
Discussione
Questi risultati consentono di ipotizzare che le basi cognitive della CS e della RP sono da
ricondurre ad una compromissione di attribuzione della familiarità.Introduction Capgras syndrome (CS) is characterized by a delusional belief that one or few highly familiar people have been replaced by impostors who are physically very similar to the original/s. Reduplicative paramnesia of places (RP) is characterized by a delusional that place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously. CS e RP were traditionally considered to have their origins in psychodynamic conflict, but following the description of many cases with organic aetiology, many potential neuropsychological basis have been suggested. The present study aims to clarify this issue by exploring different neuropsychological variables. Materials and Methods This study included 14 patients with Lewy body Dementia, 14 patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), and 14 healthy individuals. Two experimental works have been performed: the survey on CS, the LBD group consisted of 8 patients with CS and 6 without this syndrome; the survey on PR, the LBD group consisted of 7 patients with PR and 7 without this syndrome. The battery (tests with faces designed for the investigation of the CS, and with buildings for the investigation of the PR) explored different neuropsychological domains: Perceptual ability: it was examined using tests of gender identity, age identification, perceptual discrimination of faces, buildings matching in the same perspective, buildings matching in different perspective. Familiarity recognition: it was examined using tests of familiar faces recognition, famous faces recognition, familiar buildings recognition (exterior), familiar buildings recognition (interior). Recognition of face emotions: it was examined using test of emotion matching. Results Patients with LBD, with CS and PR, commit more errors in assigning familiarity with the faces and buildings (statistically significant) compared with subjects with LBD without these syndromes. In contrast, there were no significant differences in the performance of patients with LBD with CS and PR, respectively, compared to those without delusions, in tests that explore visual perceptual skills and recognition of emotions of the face. Discussion This finding allows to posit that the potential basis for CP and RP, lies in an impairment of familiarity attribution.
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Lesage, Jakob. "A grammar and lexicon of Kam (àŋwɔ̀m), a Niger-Congo language of central eastern Nigeria." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020INAL0008.
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Cette thèse fournit la première description détaillée du Kam (àŋwɔ̀m), une langue Niger-Congo parlée à Taraba State, dans le centre-est du Nigéria, par environ 8 000 à 10 000 personnes. La thèse propose une analyse de la grammaire et du lexique du Kam, informée par la typologie et la linguistique aréale, et contribue ainsi à notre compréhension de la structure grammaticale des langues Niger-Congo. Cette description est basée sur des nouvelles données linguistiques récoltées dans la communauté Kam entre 2016 et 2018. Elle se compose de six parties : (1) introduction, (2) analyse phonologique, (3) morphosyntaxe nominale, (4) morphosyntaxe verbale, (5) morphosyntaxe des propositions et (6) un échantillon de texte et un lexique composé de 1300 entrées. Les caractéristiques du Kam qui peuvent être d'un intérêt particulier pour la linguistique africaine et la linguistique générale comprennent les plosives labio-vélaires kp et gb ; une différence prosodique entre les positions fortes et les positions faibles dans les thèmes prosodiques ; la morphologie tonale utilisée pour la dérivation et pour la flexion ; l'absence de classes nominales et du genre grammatical ; des pronoms logophoriques ; les STAMP-morphs (des morphèmes qui expriment simultanément la personne et le nombre grammatical du sujet, le temps, l’aspect et la polarité d’une proposition); les constructions multi-verbes ; des stratégies de réduplication verbale; la négation de la proposition finale ; et les interrogatives de contenu bipartite. Les Kam et leur langue font partie du paysage linguistique et culturel diversifié du nord-est et du centre-est du Nigéria. A ce jour, on classifie le Kam comme une langue isolée dans la sous-famille Adamawa du Niger-Congo. Cependant, comme l'unité généalogique des langues Adamawa n'est plus largement acceptée aujourd’hui, la classification du Kam et des autres langues devrait être révisée. Bien que cette thèse ne traite pas la classification de Kam, elle fournit les données grammaticales et lexicales indispensables pour toute comparaison entre le Kam et d'autres langues et familles de languesThis thesis is the first extensive description of Kam (àŋwɔ̀m), a Niger-Congo language spoken in Taraba State, central eastern Nigeria, by an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people. It offers a typologically and areally informed analysis of the grammar and lexicon of Kam, thereby advancing our understanding of the grammatical structure of Niger-Congo languages. This description is based on novel linguistic data collected in the Kam community between 2016 and 2018. There are six parts: (1) introduction, (2) phonological analysis, (3) nominal morphosyntax, (4) verbal morphosyntax, (5) clausal morphosyntax and (6) a sample of text and a lexicon with approx. 1,300 entries. Features of Kam that may be particularly interesting for African and general linguistics include labial-velar stops kp and gb; a difference between prosodically strong and prosodically weak positions in prosodic stems; tonal morphology used for both derivation and inflection; the absence of noun classes or gender; logophoric pronominals; STAMP-morphs; multi-verb constructions; verbal reduplication strategies; clause-final negation and bipartite content interrogatives. The Kam community and their language are part of the linguistically and culturally diverse landscape of north-east and central-east Nigeria. Previous research classified Kam as an isolated language within the Adamawa sub-family of Niger-Congo, whose genealogical unity is no longer widely accepted. Therefore, the classification of Kam and other languages should be reviewed. While classification is not addressed in this thesis, it provides grammatical and lexical data indispensable for any comparison between Kam and other languages and lineages
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Bachmar, Karim. "Les quadriconsonantiques dans le lexique de l'arabe." Phd thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00672544.
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La thèse se répartit en deux tomes. Les quadriconsonantiques forment deux groupes de radicaux distincts, à savoir : les radicaux de forme ABAB et les radicaux de forme ABCD. L'analyse de ces radicaux, en appliquant la TME (Théorie, Matrice, Etymon) élaborée par G. Bohas, permet de définir leur fonctionnement aux plans sémantique, sémantico phonétique et structurel. La première partie Tome 1 analyse les quadriconsonantiques de forme ABAB. La deuxième partie Tome 2 est consacrée aux quadriconsonantiques de forme ABCD.Concernant les radicaux ABAB, dont la structure est issue d'un redoublement de l'unique étymon AB, le travail d'analyse va plus s'orienter sur la sémantique. Il est démontré que le redoublement ne s'accompagne pas d'une modification sémantique systématique, contrairement à ce que l'on observe dans les parlers d'orient et d'occident.La deuxième partie de la thèse, Tome 2, dans les mêmes conditions que précédemment, étudie les radicaux ABCD dans le cadre de la TME en prenant en compte la contrainte phonétique formulée par Angoujard (1997), notée : CPA. L'objectif est de déterminer leur mode de fonctionnement tant sur le plan structurel que sur le plan sémantico phonétique. L'étude de ces radicaux ABCD ne se limite pas uniquement à montrer le fonctionnement structurel des radicaux mais établit une relation entre la TME de Bohas et la CPA d'Angoujard.
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Kang, Mi Og, and 姜美玉. "REDUPLICATION IN CHINESE." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08979130688322745348.
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Sun, Jingtao. "Reduplication in old Chinese." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10919.
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This dissertation aims at constructing a description of reduplication in Old Chinese, developing a
generative theory of morpho-phonological interaction to account for the formation of the
reduplication patterns, and re-examining general reduplication theories and issues of other
linguistic components by drawing lessons from Old Chinese reduplication. The investigation of
the source data reveals that Old Chinese reduplication has four basic patterns: progressive
reduplication with either "smallness" or "vividness", retrogressive pattern with "repetition",
fission reduplication with "specialization", and total reduplication with a vivid impression (a
parasitic sense).
The formation of the reduplication patterns results from the interaction between morphology
and phonology. With motivation from semantics, the monosyllabic base is reduplicated as two
identical syllables, which undergo further modification. 1) Since the reduplicative form with
"diminutive" or "vividness" is semantically undecomposable, OOP (One Syllable One Meaning
Principle) forces the two syllables to sound like one, which is achieved by raising the sonority of
the onset of the second syllable. As such, the progressive pattern arises. 2) For the same reason,
the reduplicative form with "specialization" has the same shape as the progressive at one stage.
Pressure from the system thus compels it to undergo further modification, eventually producing
the fission pattern. 3) The reduplicative form with a vivid impression is not under the control of
OOP; thus it can keep its two identical syllables intact, yielding total reduplication pattern. 4)
Reduplicative verbs are semantically decomposable; thus OOP does not come into effect. That
the form is actually modified stems from the pressure of an already-existent total reduplication
pattern, while this modification of the first rhyme is determined by quasi-iambic stress. This
interaction produces a retrogressive pattern.
This study sheds light on reduplication processes in general and other linguistic issues.
During reduplication, full reduplication occurs first; then the reduplicant is modified. That
reduplication operates on the interface between morphology and phonology is a universal
phenomenon, but how this operation proceeds is language-specific. The consistent distinction
between Type A syllables and Type B syllables seen in Old Chinese reduplication patterns
indicates the unreasonableness of reconstructing a "medial" yod for Old Chinese.