Reduplication in Mapuzungun: form and function

Zúñiga, Fernando; Díaz-Fernández, Antonio (2014). Reduplication in Mapuzungun: form and function. In: Goodwin-Gómez, Gale; van der Voort, Hein (eds.) Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America. Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas: Vol. 7 (pp. 17-37). Leiden: Brill 10.1163/9789004272415_003

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Mapuzungun has reduplicative structures based on elements other than verb stems that are of very limited productivity. With verb stems, however, several formal patterns can be distinguished, which consist of the repetition of the lexical verb stem plus the addition of an apparently grammaticalized version of one of three verb roots or a zero morpheme. The previous literature has attempted to identify form/function correlations for these more or less productive verbal reduplicative patterns, and the present paper contributes to the discussion by surveying older studies and exploring several cases that suggest that such form/function correspondences are substantially less straightforward than a casual observer might think.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics
UniBE Contributor:	Zúñiga, Fernando
Subjects:	400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 490 Other languages
ISSN:	1876-5580
ISBN:	978-90-04272408
Series:	Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Publisher:	Brill
Language:	English
Submitter:	Fernando Zúñiga
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2014 16:58
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:33
Publisher DOI:	10.1163/9789004272415_003
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/51488