Types of Reduplication - A Case Study of Bikol

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.

About the author

Veronika Mattes, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria.

Product details

• Authors: Veronika Mattes
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9783110362978
• ISBN: 978-3-11-036297-8
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 16 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Series: Studia typologica; Studia Typologica; ISSN; Studia Typologica [STTYP]
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures