Doubling as a Sign of Morphology: A Typological Perspective

Abstract

1The main goal of the paper is showing that there are three different kinds of iterative phenomena in languages: phoneme reduplication, not analyzed here, reduplication, and repetition. The phenomena differ on the basis of the grammatical components involved and therefore have very different effects. My work argues that reduplication is first and fore-most a formal phenomenon. It can involve several kinds of meaning, some of which of very iconic origin, but all the meanings get encoded grammatically. Then, phrases can be iterated, as well, and they are candidates for repetition. I take repetition to have an exclusively iconic function, basically with a single meaning: emphasis. No formal aspects are involved here. I insert the preceding generalization in the wider framework of the Parallel Architecture (Jackendoff 1997(Jackendoff , 2002.

Typology of Headedness in Yorùbá Nominal Derivations

“…In this section, I present the analysis of nominalisation by full reduplication. The process of deriving reduplication in language involves copying (Pulleyblank 2009, Forza 2011, Ògúnwálé 2012, Eleshin 2017. Various scholars of Yorùbá word formation have identified different categories of full reduplication process (Pulleyblank & Akinlabi 1988, Awóyalé 1989, Ọla 1995, Ajibóyè & Dechaine 2004, Ògúnwálé 2012, Akinlabi & Iloene 2015, Ehineni 2017.…”