Author: Veronika Mattes
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110393123
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
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.