Contrastive focus reduplication and the modification puzzle
In this short paper we present a so far unnoticed syntactic constraint on contrastive focus reduplication (CR), a phenomenon that restricts the semantics of the reduplicated element to a prototypical meaning (but has other uses as well): The CR construction cannot be modified. In the case of nominal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/1075 |