Reduplication and doubling contrasted: implications for the structure of the DP and the AP

Reduplication and doubling contrasted: implications for the structure of the DP and the AP

This paper examines adjectival reduplication in Chinese which is contrasted with determiner doubling in Germanic. It shows that two superficially different phenomena in two genetically unrelated languages are sensitive to similar properties. Both environments support an analysis of adjectives in ter...

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Main Author: Artemis Alexiadou
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade do Porto 2010-01-01
Series:Linguística : Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto
Subjects:
Reduplication
determiner doubling
boundedness
degree
scales
Online Access:http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/8970.pdf

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