Distributed Reduplication (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)
By John Frampton.
Description
An original and comprehensive approach to reduplication, with extensive examples and case studies in many languages.A convincing account of reduplicative phenomena has been a longstanding problem for rule-based theories of morphophonology. Many scholars believe that derivational phonology is incapable in principle of analyzing reduplication. In Distributed Reduplication, John Frampton demonstrates the adequacy of rule-based theories by providing a general account within that framework and illustrating his proposal with extensive examples of widely varying reduplicatation schemes from many l...
ISBN(s)
0262013266, 9780262013260
