Reduplication at the Word Level

Contrary to earlier approaches, this study suggests that Modern Greek (MG) is a language that exhibits reduplication, in the form of Total Reduplication (TR). Based on two experiments with native speakers, the analysis aims at a typology of TR in MG and addresses the morphosyntactic, phonological, semantic and pragmatic aspects of each major type, as well as the constraints and speakers' preferences concerning their use.

Acknowledgments ; Abstract ; List of Conventions ; List of Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction ; 1.1 Object of study and preliminaries ; 1.1.1 The word ; 1.1.2 Theoretical background and framework ; 1.2 Aims and structure of the thesis.

1.3 "False friends": types of reduplication not considered in this study 1.3.1 Accidental and pseudo-reduplication ; 1.3.2 Reduplication in sound symbolism and onomatopoeic wordformation ; 1.3.3 Morphophonological reduplication with alternation ; 1.3.4 Reduplication at the syntactic level.

1.3.4.1 "Syndetic" repetition/reduplication 1.3.4.2 Word repetition at level of the clause ; 1.3.4.3 Repetition across clauses ; 1.4 Summary ; Part I: Review of the literature ; 2 Overview of the Greek literature: how TR is presented in Greek studies, grammars and dictionaries.

2.1 Introduction 2.2 Studies on TR and similar phenomena in Greek ; 2.2.1 Terminology and objects of study ; 2.2.2 Status of X X unit in the grammar/status of TR as process in the language ; 2.2.3 Relation of TR with repetition, emphasis and pragmatics.

2.2.4 Meanings and functions of TR 2.2.5 Restrictions/formal and lexical characteristics of TR ; 2.2.6 Evolution and origin of TR ; 2.2.7 S…