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An analysis of Taiwan Southern Min tetrasyllabic adjective reduplication
台湾闽南语四字格重叠形容词分析
Yuchau E. Hsiao 萧宇超
Abstract 摘要
Tetrasyllabic adjective reduplications in Taiwan Southern Min can be achieved by either partial reduplication or total reduplication. The partial reduplication may operate rightward or leftward, depending on the morpho-semantic structure of the stem. The shape of the total reduplication is determined by the semantic function, emphatic or weakening. This paper employs the theory of Cophonology, and posits four cophonologies to account for the partial and total reduplications. I argue that alignment and contiguity constraints interact differently in the cophonologies of reduplication, and the cophonologies are structurally related. The proposed approach offers a simpler and unmarked generalization, which effectively predicts the dialectal universality and variation.
Subject Keywords 主题词
Reduplication 重叠词 Cophonology 并存音韵 Alignment 对整制约 Contiguity 紧邻制约
Optimality Theory 优选理论 Taiwan Southern Min 台湾闽南
Journal of Chinese Linguistics vol.46, no.1 (January 2018): 123-148
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