Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Contributors VII
4. Part I: Setting the Scene: Forms and Functions of Repetition
5. Exact repetition or total reduplication? Exploring their boundaries in discourse and grammar 3
6. Function vs form – On ways of telling repetition and reduplication apart 29
7. The derivational nature of reduplication and its relation to boundary phenomena 67
8. Part II: Exact Repetition in Grammar
9. Reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language 91
10. A brief overview of total reduplication in Modern Japanese 110
11. Affixation or compounding? Reduplication in Standard Chinese 127
12. Fixer-uppers. Reduplication in the derivation of phrasal verbs 158
13. Turkish doubled verbs as doubled TPs 182
14. Cognate objects in language variation and change 200
15. Part III: Exact Repetition in (Discourse) Pragmatics
16. The lexical clone: Pragmatics, prototypes, productivity 233
17. Sentence-peripheral Coordinative Reduplication in German: A pragmatic view 265
18. Focus on repetition: On the role of focus and repetition in echo questions 295
19. Repetition versus implicatures and presuppositions 329
20. Exact Repetition in Tojol-ab’al Maya 350
21. An analysis of two forms of verbal mimicry in troubles talk conversations between strangers and friends 366
22. Language Index 389
23. Subject Index 391