Reduplication in Movima

Katharina Haude (1)

1 SeDyL - Structure et Dynamique des Langues

Reduplication in Movima (isolate, lowland Bolivia) covers a remarkable range of grammatical functions. Different reduplication processes indicate morphosyntactic categories such as direct, inverse and middle voice on verbal bases; on nominal bases, reduplication serves to form subordinate predicates, inalienably possessed nouns, and possessive predicates. In contrast, the cross-linguistically typical functions of reduplication, such as emphasis or plurality, are not or only marginally present. Movima reduplication is based not on morphemes, but on prosodic categories (moras and feet). With all these properties, it is best analysed in terms of prosodic morphology, where reduplicative morphemes are considered phonologically underspecified affixes.

Mots clés: reduplication; Movima; prosodic morphology

Domaines: Linguistique

Katharina Haude. Reduplication in Movima: A Prosodic Morphology Approach. Voort, Hein van der, and Gale Goodwin Gómez. Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America, Brill, pp.343-374, 2014. ⟨halshs-00961134⟩