REDUPLICATION FROM A CROSS-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE
REDUPLICATION FROM A CROSS-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: While reduplication is a marginal word-formation process in the majority of languages of the Indo-European language family, it is widely employed in both derivational and inflectional morphology in other languages of the world. The paper examines the use of reduplication in word-formation from a cross-linguistic perspective. The analysis is based on a sample of 100 languages, which makes it possible to provide an overview of its productive use in various language families and language genera. Furthermore, the paper examines fundamental types of reduplication as well as its semantic, formal and structural characteristics. The final part summarizes the dominant features of reduplication resulting from my typological research.

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