Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) - Softcover

Botha, Rudolf P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052102613X ISBN 13: 9780521026130

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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Book Description

This study of reduplication in Afrikaans provides a unified and principled analysis of an unusual and highly complex word formation process, shedding new light on the scope and content of various fundamental lexicalist principles of word formation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052102613X
• ISBN 13: 9780521026130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200