Synopses & Reviews
This study of reduplication in Afrikaans sheds new light on fundamental lexicalist principles of word formation.
Synopsis
This study of reduplication in Afrikaans provides a unified and principled analysis of an unusual and highly complex word formation process, shedding new light on the scope and content of various fundamental lexicalist principles of word formation. It represents an important theoretical and methodological advance which will be of as much interest for its method of inquiry and argumentation as for the fresh insights it provides for scholars and researchers in the fields of morphology, word formation and semantics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Formation; 3. Semantic interpretation; 4. Link-up; 5. Metascientific retrospection; Notes; References; Index.