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Document Details : Title: On Contrastive Reduplication Subtitle: Adding Dutch to the West Germanic Typology Author(s): CAVIRANI-POTS, Cora , DIRIX, Peter Journal: Leuvense Bijdragen - Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology Volume: 104 Date: 2022-2023 Pages: 38-61 DOI: 10.2143/LB.104.0.3293182 Abstract : Reduplication as a productive morphosyntactic process in West Germanic is usually only associated with Afrikaans. The morphosyntax, phonology and semantics of this phenomenon in Afrikaans has been extensively investigated. However, since the start of the new millennium, some papers point out that reduplication is also a productive phenomenon in English, and there are also some hints about its existence in German. While just like in Afrikaans, reduplication can be used for intensification, a new usage seems to have evolved, i.e. the contrastive reduplication to refer to a prototypical item of a set. In this article, we investigate the occurrence of this new phenomenon in Dutch, and compare out findings with CR in the other West Germanic languages. |
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