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The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole LanguagesEdited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz
[Creole Language Library 43] 2012
► pp. 235–250
This paper studies lexical reduplication in São Tomense, a Portuguese-based Creole language. Its central claim is that lexical reduplication in São Tomense results from the external merge of the same lexical item in two structural slots available in independently-motivated syntactic structures: the modification structure and the coordination structure.