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Linguistics --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Typologie (Linguistique) --- 800.8 --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistic universals --- Taalklassen. Taalsoorten. Soorten talen. Talen: typologie --- Typology --- Classification --- 800.8 Taalklassen. Taalsoorten. Soorten talen. Talen: typologie --- Typology (Linguistics).

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This article provides a new vista of an old problem, viz. the supposed counter-iconic nature of a variety of reduplicative patterns which encode categories such as diminution, attenuation, etc. It is argued that even these categories are iconically represented by reduplication because iconicity is not tied to an increase in size of the entities referred to by the reduplicative construction. Iconicity applies if the semantic description of the quality encoded by reduplication is more complex than the one necessary for the description of the non-reduplicated pattern. This new understanding of iconicity is illustrated by examples of total reduplication drawn from a world-wide convenience sample of languages. Circum-Mediterranean languages are given special emphasis in the final discussion.

Areal linguistics. --- Area linguistics --- Geolinguistics --- Linguistics --- Europe --- Languages. --- Linguistique géographique --- Linguistique --- History --- Histoire --- Langues --- Grammar --- Sociolinguistics --- Areal linguistics --- Languages --- Europe - Languages --- Language and languages. --- Europe.

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GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL --- EUROPE --- GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL --- GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL --- TYPOLOGIE (LINGUISTIQUE) --- NEGATIVES --- LANGUAGES --- SENTENCES --- QUANTIFIERS --- GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL --- EUROPE --- GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL --- GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL --- TYPOLOGIE (LINGUISTIQUE) --- NEGATIVES --- LANGUAGES --- SENTENCES --- QUANTIFIERS

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"Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature and methodology of the research on comparative concepts - particularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe languages and those needed to compare languages. While the first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the following five confront specific issues in the domain of language analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology)"--

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Categorization (Linguistics) --- Parties du discours (linguistique) --- Typologie (linguistique) --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Grammatical categories. --- Typologie linguistique. --- Grammatical categories