Publication Details
Title: A Preliminary Study of the Semantics of Reduplication
Author: T. Regier
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: April 1994
PDF: ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/techreports/1994/tr-94-019.pdf
Overview:
There is a universal component to the semantics of reduplication, which can be expressed as a radial category of concepts. I present this radial category, along with supporting evidence from a range of languages, and motivations for the links between the various senses. The structure of the radial graph gives rise to a number of predicted implicational universals. I also show that the radial category for reduplication shares an entire subsystem of concepts with the radial category for the Russian verbal prefix raz-. This sharing of subsystems of concepts across separate radial categories suggests that there is a single universal core conceptual network, with individual constructions covering different, possibly overlapping, regions.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-94-019
Bibliographic Reference:
T. Regier. A Preliminary Study of the Semantics of Reduplication. ICSI Technical Report TR-94-019, April 1994
Author: T. Regier
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: April 1994
PDF: ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/techreports/1994/tr-94-019.pdf
Overview:
There is a universal component to the semantics of reduplication, which can be expressed as a radial category of concepts. I present this radial category, along with supporting evidence from a range of languages, and motivations for the links between the various senses. The structure of the radial graph gives rise to a number of predicted implicational universals. I also show that the radial category for reduplication shares an entire subsystem of concepts with the radial category for the Russian verbal prefix raz-. This sharing of subsystems of concepts across separate radial categories suggests that there is a single universal core conceptual network, with individual constructions covering different, possibly overlapping, regions.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-94-019
Bibliographic Reference:
T. Regier. A Preliminary Study of the Semantics of Reduplication. ICSI Technical Report TR-94-019, April 1994