Reduplicative Syllables in Romance Languages
Reduplicative Syllables in Romance Languages
Author(s): Iwona PiechnikSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: reduplication; repetition; doubling; Latin; Romance languages; monosyllables; polysyllables; syllables;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the reduplications in Latin and in Romance languages. While in Latin there were only reduplications of monosyllables, Romance languages have a lot of polysyllabic (mostly disyllabic) reduplications. This development could arise due to a bigger expressivity of vulgar Latin mixed with vernacular languages and to their contacts with other languages: Germanic (mostly English and German), Celtic, Slavic, Turkic and Hungarian, in which the polysyllabic reduplication is the most common.
Journal: Romanica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 15/2015
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 30-55
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English