List of contributors

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Editorial Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Reduplication: Form, function and distribution 11
6. From repetition to reduplication in Riau Indonesian 31
7. Morphological Doubling Theory: Evidence for morphological doubling in reduplication 65
8. The Emergence of the Marked: Tone in some African reduplicative systems 89
9. Reduplication and consonant mutation in the Northern Atlantic languages 111
10. Wrong side reduplication is epiphenomenal: Evidence from Yoruba 135
11. Non-adjacency in Reduplication 161
12. Enhancing contrast in reduplication 211
13. Phrasal reduplication and dual description 239
14. Reduplication in Modern Hindi and the theory of reduplication 263
15. On the grammaticalization of verbal reduplication in Japanese 283
16. Reduplicative allomorphy and language prehistory in Uto-Aztecan 315
17. Reduplication in Tupi-Guarani languages: Going into opposite directions 351
18. On the borderline of reduplication: Gemination and other consonant doubling in Arabic morphology 369
19. Syntactic reduplication in Arabic 395
20. Reduplication in the Vedic verb: Indo-European inheritance, analogy and iconicity 431
21. Reduplication in child language 455
22. Reduplication before age two 475
23. Acquisition of reduplication in Turkish 493
24. Reduplication in Pidgins and Creoles 511
25. Less is more: Evidence from diminutive reduplication in Caribbean Creole languages 533
26. Intensity and diminution triggered by reduplicating morphology: Janus-faced iconicity 547
27. Backward and sideward reduplication in German Sign Language 569
28. A reanalysis of reduplication in American Sign Language 595
29. List of keywords 625
30. List of languages 631
31. List of contributors 637