Form and Meaning in Word Formation A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication

Name: Form and Meaning in Word Formation A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication
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ISBN: 9780521352604

ISBN-10: 0521352606

ISBN-13: 9780521352604

Edition: 1988

Authors: Rudolf P. Botha, S. R. Anderson, J. Bresnan, B. Comrie, W. Dressler

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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…

Book details

List price: $121.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/24/1988
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Formation



Semantic interpretation



Link-up



Metascientific retrospection


Notes


References


Index