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Publication details [#31918]

Tirumalesh, K.V. 1991. Why you can't repunch Bill: An inquiry into the pragmatics of 're-words' in English. Journal of Pragmatics 16 (3) : 249–267.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

pragmatic implication | repeating | verb

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper points out the problems of the reductionist approach that claims that the creation and use of 're-words' in English can be ascribed to some unique pragmatic property of the base verbs that enter into the word formation process.