This article describes the semantic values of reduplication in Barunga Kriol – an English-based creole of northern Australia –, with a focus on its expressive functions. Barunga Kriol reduplication has two types of functions. Its most frequent meaning is aspectual atelicity. In addition, it has a number of expressive meanings and connotations: hypocoristic usages; descriptions of children’s games and imitations; and a softening role in imperatives and reprimands. Contrary to the aspectual value of reduplication which is iconically motivated, expressive values are motivated by the pragmatic association of reduplication with children. Expressive uses of reduplication in Borunge are rarer and less regular than the grammaticalized aspectual uses, which are very frequent. Aspectual reduplication is optional most of the time, so that explaining its actual distribution in discourse is a complicated matter. This article shows that this distribution can often be explained in the view of the expressive values of reduplication (some of them also conveyed by affixal evaluative morphology in the Australian languages that have been replaced by this creole). Thus, taking into account the expressive dimension of reduplication contributes significantly to the linguistic analysis of the grammaticalized aspectual function of reduplication.

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Barunga Kriol（澳大利亚北部）的重复表达值

本文描述了 Barunga Kriol（一种来自澳大利亚北部的英语克里奥尔语）中重复的语义价值，重点是其表达功能。Barunga Kriol 复制具有两种类型的功能。它最常见的含义是方面的无知。此外，它还具有多种表达意义和内涵：虚伪的用法；儿童游戏和模仿的描述；并在命令和谴责中起到软化作用。与标志性动机的重复的方面价值相反，表达价值是由重复与儿童的实用关联所驱动的。Borunge 中重复的表达性使用比语法化的方面使用更罕见，也更不规律，后者非常频繁。大多数情况下，视向重复是可选的，所以解释它在话语中的实际分布是​​一件复杂的事情。这篇文章表明，这种分布通常可以从重复的表达价值的角度来解释（其中一些也被澳大利亚语言中的词缀评价形态所传达，这些词已经被这个克里奥尔语所取代）。因此，考虑到重复的表达维度对重复的语法化方面功能的语言分析有重大贡献。