Essays about: "oral reduplication"

Found 1 essay containing the words oral reduplication.

  1. 1. Revisiting Reduplication : Toward a description of reduplication in predicative signs in Swedish Sign Language

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Carl Börstell; [2011]
    Keywords : Reduplication; mouthing; doubling; oral reduplication; Swedish Sign Language; event structure; pluractionality; plurality; morphology;

    Abstract : This study investigates the use of reduplication with predicative signs in Swedish Sign Language (SSL), and also the related phenomena doubling and displacement. Reduplication in SSL typically expresses plurality of events and/or referents, but may also express intensification, ongoing event or generic activity. READ MORE