Reduplication and Morphological Complexity: A Typologically Oriented Case Study

By Veronika Mattes

The book systematically discusses the formal and functional properties as well as the rules of the manifold productive reduplication types of Bikol, an Austronesian language of the Philippines. Based on the author's own fieldwork, this case study demonstrates the highly complex and grammaticized status of reduplication. In addition, the formal and semantic properties of unproductive reduplicative forms of the language are also investigated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311036297X
• ISBN13: 9783110362978
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary