Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs Tilsm) (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [tilsm], 323)

Most scholars define reduplication as a formally restricted grammatical process, neatly distinguishing it from 'mere' repetition as a discoursal option. However, there is a fuzzy grey area between the two processes that has rarely been explored so far. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of exact repetition, understood broadly as the systematic iteration of one and the same linguistic item within relatively close syntactic proximity, is investigated from a number of angles. The volume contains studies from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and deals with a broad range of languages, including alleged 'reduplication avoiders'. In bringing together different theoretical perspectives, phenomenological domains, and methodologies, and in linking the fields of syntax and discourse to those of morphology and morphophonology, the volume provides new insights into the structure and meaning of exact repetition phenomena, and, more generally, into their status within a theory of language. The collection will appeal to formally and functionally oriented scholars from all subfields of linguistics, including typology. Contents 5 List of Contributors 7 Part I: Setting the Scene: Forms and Functions of Repetition 11 Exact repetition or total reduplication? Exploring their boundaries in discourse and grammar 11 Function vs form – On ways of telling repetition and reduplication apart 37 The derivational nature of reduplication and its relation to boundary phenomena 75 Part II: Exact Repetition in Grammar 99 Reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language 99 A brief overview of total reduplication in Modern Japanese 118 Affixation or compounding? Reduplication in Standard Chinese 135 Fixer-uppers. Reduplication in the derivation of phrasal verbs 166 Turkish doubled verbs as doubled TPs 190 Cognate objects in language variation and change 208 Part III: Exact Repetition in (Discourse) Pragmatics 241 The lexical clone: Pragmatics, prototypes, productivity 241 Sentence-peripheral Coordinative Reduplication in German: A pragmatic view 273 Focus on repetition: On the role of focus and repetition in echo questions 303 Repetition versus implicatures and presuppositions 337 Exact Repetition in Tojol-ab’al Maya 358 An analysis of two forms of verbal mimicry in troubles talk conversations between strangers and friends 374 Language Index 397 Subject Index 399