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This is a new contribution to a theory of <i>reiteration</i> in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. <i>Reiteration</i> 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, the authors are led to challenge the 'iconic' theory of 'reduplication' proposed in several other studies of similar phenomena. This volume will be relevant for creole studies, but also for readers more generally interested in language universals and the architecture of grammars.
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Reduplication beyond the word level
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Enoch O. Aboh
Aboh, Enoch O.
Enoch O.
Aboh
University of Amsterdam
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Norval Smith
Smith, Norval
Norval
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University of Amsterdam
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Anne Zribi-Hertz
Zribi-Hertz, Anne
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The morphosyntax of non-iconic reduplications
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Enoch O. Aboh
Aboh, Enoch O.
Enoch O.
Aboh
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Norval Smith
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Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In this paper, we have studied non-iconic reduplication in Eastern Gbe languages (viz., Fongbe and Gungbe) and Suriname creoles (viz., Sranan and Saramaccan). We have shown that in the Surinam Creoles, as well as in the Gbe languages, such non-iconic reduplication is conditioned by a unique syntactic structure which derives both verbal nouns (or gerunds) and (verbal) adjectives. Put another way, we analyze reduplication as a morphological process (i.e. affixation) conditioned by structural properties. We further show that the resulting reduplicated items correlate with a change in meaning that often varies from process/event to state/result, and can therefore not be accounted for in terms of iconicity. With regard to the issue of the emergence of reduplication in creoles, we show that the development of these non-iconic reduplications in the Surinam creoles derive partially from substrate influence from Eastern Gbe, while showing some properties of gerunds and past participles in English. Under this view therefore, reduplication, far from being a fast and cheap morphological operation available to a creole emerging from a pidgin state, represents a constrained morphosyntactic process.
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Verb focus in Haitian
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Herby Glaude
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Glaude
SFL/Université Paris-8-CNRS and ACLC/Amsterdam
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Anne Zribi-Hertz
Zribi-Hertz, Anne
Anne
Zribi-Hertz
Université Paris-8/SFL, CNRS
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This article bears on <i>VFD</i> (Verb Fronting with Doubling) constructions in Haitian, whose left periphery contains a bare homonym of the lexical verb and which trigger a Verb-Focus effect. We seek to update the description of VFD and to reach a satisfactory analysis providing empirical support for addressing the theoretical issues central to the present volume. Our study leads us to conclude that: (i) The syntactic operations involved in the derivation of VFD are available independently of reiteration; (ii) The semantic effect of VFD is not ‘intensive’ but contrastive, and arises from restrictive modification, a form-meaning relation hardly analysable as ‘iconic’; (iii) Haitian VFD may have arisen from a regular recombination of features partaking in focus effects in French, Gbe, and Universal Grammar.
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Verb doubling in Breton and Gungbe
Obligatory exponence at the sentence level
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Mélanie Jouitteau
Jouitteau, Mélanie
Mélanie
Jouitteau
CNRS, UMR 7110 Université Paris Diderot
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Breton tensed verbs show an synthetic/analytic structure alternation (<i>I.know vs. to.know I.do</i>), that is not conditioned by their semantic or aspectual structure but by their syntactic environment, namely word order. Such a paradigm of verb-doubling poses a strong case against iconicity, because knowing where a verb can double requires full information about the entire derivation of the sentence. The sentence is correct if and only if the tensed element is not at the left-edge of the sentence. The infinitive form of the analytic construction prevents the tensed element from occurring in the most left-edge position. This paper proposes that the analytic structure (<i>to.know I.do</i>) responds to the same trigger as expletive insertion (<i>expl I.know</i>). I claim that analytic tense formation is a last-resort strategy that forms the equivalent of an expletive by excorporation of the verbal root out of the complex tensed head. The excorporated lexical verb appears fronted as an infinitive form by default. The tensed auxiliary is either realized as a dummy ‘do’ auxiliary (<i>to.know I.do</i>), or, for an idiosyncratic list of verbs, as the tensed reiteration of the excorporated verb itself (doubling; <i>to.know I.know</i>).
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NN constructions in Modern Hebrew
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Dana Cohen
Cohen, Dana
Dana
Cohen
University of Paris 8
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This paper proposes structural analyses for several nominal reiteration constructions (NN) in Modern Hebrew which function as adverbials. The properties and distribution of these patterns indicate an interaction of nominal distinctions (number and mass/count denotation) with Aktionsart, suggesting that reiteration is derived through the insertion of the same lexical element twice into a regular syntactic structure, rather than involving specialized morphological derivation. Although all three constructions share a pluralizing semantic effect, it is argued that the notion of iconicity does not capture the intricacy of their interpretive properties. The proposed analysis ties these Hebrew constructions to related phenomena attested cross-linguistically, both reiterative and non-reiterative.
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Attenuative verbal reduplication in Mauritian
A morpho-semantic approach
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Fabiola Henri
Henri, Fabiola
Fabiola
Henri
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 & LLF, UMR 7110
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This paper presents an aspect of the grammar of Mauritian, a French-based Creole, called ‘Attenuative Reduplication’ (AR). AR is not specific to Mauritian since it can be found in other Creoles, and in languages like Mandarin Chinese, Setswana and Malagasy to cite but a few. The properties of reduplicated constructions has been the topic of extensive research and for the most characterized as iconic (Sapir 1921). Kouwenberg & LaCharité argue that the Iconicity principle can somehow be extended to AR although they do not seem, at first glance, to fit the generalization. However, data from Mauritian show that AR is not necessarily iconic nor pluractional. I argue that AR is a lexical formation process and that the interpretations available with AR are dependent on the aspectual properties of the predicate. The analysis, couched within a constraint-based grammar, can be extended not only to other lexical categories but also to other languages where the phenomenon is available.
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Reduplication in São Tomense
Issues at the syntax-semantics interface
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Emmanuel
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Université d’Orléans, LLL, UMR-7270
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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.
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Reiteration in Pichi
Forms, functions and areal-typological perspectives*
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Yakpo, Kofi
Kofi
Yakpo
Radboud University Nijmegen
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Pichi, an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, features four types of reiteration. Amongst them, reduplication and repetition can be distinguished on formal and semantic grounds. Reduplication is a derivational operation consisting of self-compounding and tone deletion. It is restricted to dynamic verbs and yields iterative, dispersive and attenuative meanings. Repetition occurs with all major word classes, renders more iconic meanings and is analyzed as semi-morphological in nature. A comparison with verbal reiteration in a cross-section of West African languages and two of its sister languages in the Caribbean allows the conclusion that Pichi reduplication reflects an areal pattern. I conclude further that Pichi reduplication is not exceptionally iconic nor specifically “creole” in nature.
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University of Amsterdam
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Norval Smith
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University of Amsterdam
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Zribi-Hertz, Anne
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The morphosyntax of non-iconic reduplications
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Enoch O. Aboh
Aboh, Enoch O.
Enoch O.
Aboh
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Norval Smith
Smith, Norval
Norval
Smith
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In this paper, we have studied non-iconic reduplication in Eastern Gbe languages (viz., Fongbe and Gungbe) and Suriname creoles (viz., Sranan and Saramaccan). We have shown that in the Surinam Creoles, as well as in the Gbe languages, such non-iconic reduplication is conditioned by a unique syntactic structure which derives both verbal nouns (or gerunds) and (verbal) adjectives. Put another way, we analyze reduplication as a morphological process (i.e. affixation) conditioned by structural properties. We further show that the resulting reduplicated items correlate with a change in meaning that often varies from process/event to state/result, and can therefore not be accounted for in terms of iconicity. With regard to the issue of the emergence of reduplication in creoles, we show that the development of these non-iconic reduplications in the Surinam creoles derive partially from substrate influence from Eastern Gbe, while showing some properties of gerunds and past participles in English. Under this view therefore, reduplication, far from being a fast and cheap morphological operation available to a creole emerging from a pidgin state, represents a constrained morphosyntactic process.
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Verb focus in Haitian
From lexical reiteration to Predicate Cleft
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Anne Zribi-Hertz
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Université Paris-8/SFL, CNRS
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This article bears on <i>VFD</i> (Verb Fronting with Doubling) constructions in Haitian, whose left periphery contains a bare homonym of the lexical verb and which trigger a Verb-Focus effect. We seek to update the description of VFD and to reach a satisfactory analysis providing empirical support for addressing the theoretical issues central to the present volume. Our study leads us to conclude that: (i) The syntactic operations involved in the derivation of VFD are available independently of reiteration; (ii) The semantic effect of VFD is not ‘intensive’ but contrastive, and arises from restrictive modification, a form-meaning relation hardly analysable as ‘iconic’; (iii) Haitian VFD may have arisen from a regular recombination of features partaking in focus effects in French, Gbe, and Universal Grammar.
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Verb doubling in Breton and Gungbe
Obligatory exponence at the sentence level
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Mélanie Jouitteau
Jouitteau, Mélanie
Mélanie
Jouitteau
CNRS, UMR 7110 Université Paris Diderot
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Breton tensed verbs show an synthetic/analytic structure alternation (<i>I.know vs. to.know I.do</i>), that is not conditioned by their semantic or aspectual structure but by their syntactic environment, namely word order. Such a paradigm of verb-doubling poses a strong case against iconicity, because knowing where a verb can double requires full information about the entire derivation of the sentence. The sentence is correct if and only if the tensed element is not at the left-edge of the sentence. The infinitive form of the analytic construction prevents the tensed element from occurring in the most left-edge position. This paper proposes that the analytic structure (<i>to.know I.do</i>) responds to the same trigger as expletive insertion (<i>expl I.know</i>). I claim that analytic tense formation is a last-resort strategy that forms the equivalent of an expletive by excorporation of the verbal root out of the complex tensed head. The excorporated lexical verb appears fronted as an infinitive form by default. The tensed auxiliary is either realized as a dummy ‘do’ auxiliary (<i>to.know I.do</i>), or, for an idiosyncratic list of verbs, as the tensed reiteration of the excorporated verb itself (doubling; <i>to.know I.know</i>).
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NN constructions in Modern Hebrew
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Dana Cohen
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University of Paris 8
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This paper proposes structural analyses for several nominal reiteration constructions (NN) in Modern Hebrew which function as adverbials. The properties and distribution of these patterns indicate an interaction of nominal distinctions (number and mass/count denotation) with Aktionsart, suggesting that reiteration is derived through the insertion of the same lexical element twice into a regular syntactic structure, rather than involving specialized morphological derivation. Although all three constructions share a pluralizing semantic effect, it is argued that the notion of iconicity does not capture the intricacy of their interpretive properties. The proposed analysis ties these Hebrew constructions to related phenomena attested cross-linguistically, both reiterative and non-reiterative.
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Attenuative verbal reduplication in Mauritian
A morpho-semantic approach
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Fabiola Henri
Henri, Fabiola
Fabiola
Henri
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 & LLF, UMR 7110
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This paper presents an aspect of the grammar of Mauritian, a French-based Creole, called ‘Attenuative Reduplication’ (AR). AR is not specific to Mauritian since it can be found in other Creoles, and in languages like Mandarin Chinese, Setswana and Malagasy to cite but a few. The properties of reduplicated constructions has been the topic of extensive research and for the most characterized as iconic (Sapir 1921). Kouwenberg & LaCharité argue that the Iconicity principle can somehow be extended to AR although they do not seem, at first glance, to fit the generalization. However, data from Mauritian show that AR is not necessarily iconic nor pluractional. I argue that AR is a lexical formation process and that the interpretations available with AR are dependent on the aspectual properties of the predicate. The analysis, couched within a constraint-based grammar, can be extended not only to other lexical categories but also to other languages where the phenomenon is available.
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Reduplication in São Tomense
Issues at the syntax-semantics interface
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Emmanuel Schang
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Emmanuel
Schang
Université d’Orléans, LLL, UMR-7270
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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.
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Reiteration in Pichi
Forms, functions and areal-typological perspectives*
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Kofi Yakpo
Yakpo, Kofi
Kofi
Yakpo
Radboud University Nijmegen
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Pichi, an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, features four types of reiteration. Amongst them, reduplication and repetition can be distinguished on formal and semantic grounds. Reduplication is a derivational operation consisting of self-compounding and tone deletion. It is restricted to dynamic verbs and yields iterative, dispersive and attenuative meanings. Repetition occurs with all major word classes, renders more iconic meanings and is analyzed as semi-morphological in nature. A comparison with verbal reiteration in a cross-section of West African languages and two of its sister languages in the Caribbean allows the conclusion that Pichi reduplication reflects an areal pattern. I conclude further that Pichi reduplication is not exceptionally iconic nor specifically “creole” in nature.
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