Publications

Publication details [#53023]

Keevallik, Leelo. 2010. Social action of syntactic reduplication. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (3) : 800–824.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

action | reduplication | response | social role | syntactic process

Language as a subject

Estonian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study shows that instances of syntactic reduplication in Estonian, constituting specific social practices, are regularly deployed in responsive positions in action sequences.