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Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication

Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication

Botha, Rudolf P.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

DutchLinguistics

ISBN10: 0521352606
ISBN13: 9780521352604
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 24 1988
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.36
Language: English
This study provides a unified analysis of reduplication, a highly complex word formation process, in Afrikaans. Botha concludes that the reduplication principles at work in Afrikaans are not unique to that tongue and, in fact, that they are used by many other languages. Furthermore, Botha shows that neither special conceptual structures nor even standard reduplication procedures are needed to interpret Afrikaans reduplication, thus supporting recent work in cognition by Ray Jackendoff and other scholars. The book's analysis provides concrete illustration of Galilean linguistic inquiry at work in the study of word formation and meaning. Botha's study is theoretically and methodologically advanced and will be as interesting for its arguments as for its findings in the fields of morphology, word formation, and semantics.

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