Siraya Reduplication: An OT Analysis

• Main Authors: Cheng-ying Wu, 吳政穎
• Other Authors: Hui-shan Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57720219083940641999

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 英語學系 === 100 === The aim of this thesis is to re-categorize Siraya reduplication patterns and analyze Siraya reduplication patterns under the framework of Optimality Theory. This thesis argues that Siraya reduplication patterns are categorized semantically. There are four reduplication patterns in Siraya: rightward reduplication, -CV- reduplication, CV- reduplication, and Ca- reduplication. A base taking rightward reduplication usually expresses iconic meanings, such as PLURAL, HABITUAL, INTENSIVE, and IMPERFECTIVE. A base taking Ca- reduplication could express either iconic meaning, PROGRESSIVE, or non-iconic meanings, such as counting human referents and derive nouns from verbs. A base taking -CV- reduplication will result in no meaning change. A base taking CV- reduplication denotes a non-iconic meaning, counting nonhuman referents. An adjacency constraint family is adopted to analyze rightward, -CV-, and CV- reduplication. As for Ca- reduplication, the Compression Model proposed by Hendricks (1999) is used to compress the size of the reduplicants. This thesis is the first attempt to re-categorize Siraya reduplication patterns and analyze them under OT framework.