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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 77932151
TI  - Europe and the Mediterranean as linguistic areas
AU  - Ramat, Paolo
AU  - Roma, Elisa
PY  - 2007
VL  - 88
SN  - 1282152874 9786612152870 9027292221 9789027292223 9027230986 9789027230980 9789027230980
PB  - Amsterdam  Philadelphia  J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Areal linguistics.
KW  - Area linguistics
KW  - Geolinguistics
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Europe
KW  - Languages.
KW  - Linguistique géographique
KW  - Linguistique
KW  - History
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Langues
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Areal linguistics
KW  - Languages
KW  - Europe - Languages
KW  - Language and languages.
KW  - Europe.
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77932151
AB  - 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.
ER  -