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Predicative reduplication: Functions, their relationships and iconicities
Linguistic Typology ( IF 3.565 ) Pub Date : 2018-04-25 , DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2018-0003
Yuèyuán Lǐ , Dan Ponsford

Abstract We survey the predicative functions of reduplication and analyze the relationships between them in terms of semantic affinity and iconicity. Forty-five functions are identified in 108 languages. The most frequent ones have to do with repetition/continuity of events, multiplicity of participants, and intensity. Reduplication can be polysemous. Based on high cross-linguistic frequency of expression by a common reduplicative form and cases of ambiguity, we identify semantic affinities among twelve functions, together comprising a semantic map. We also analyze the functions in terms of five iconicities—iconic relationships between specific aspects of form and meaning. An interesting relationship emerges: for any pair of semantically closely related functions, the iconicities of one are always a superset of the iconicities of the other. On the widely-held assumption that initial uses are high in iconicity, the picture is one of monotonic loss of iconicity as use is extended. As well as showing empirically how the functions relate to each other, we also review three earlier proposals which were largely based on reasoning.

中文翻译:

谓词重复:功能,它们之间的关系和象似性

摘要我们研究了重复的谓词功能,并从语义亲和力和象似性方面分析了它们之间的关系。用108种语言识别了45种功能。最频繁的事件与事件的重复/连续性,参与者的多样性和强度有关。重复可以是多义的。基于常见的重复形式的高跨语言表达频率和歧义情况,我们确定了十二个函数之间的语义亲和力,一起构成了一个语义图。我们还根据五种标志性来分析功能:形式和含义的特定方面之间的标志性关系。出现了一个有趣的关系:对于任何一对语义上密切相关的功能,一个图标的含义始终是另一个图标含义的超集。根据广泛使用的假设,即初始使用具有较高的图标性,随着使用范围的扩大,图片是图标性的单调丧失之一。除了从经验上展示功能之间的相互关系外,我们还回顾了三个主要基于推理的早期提案。
更新日期:2018-04-25
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