Reduplication in lushootseed : a prosodic analysis

dc.contributor.authorKirkham, Sandra Patriciaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-14T18:31:35Z
dc.date.available2024-08-14T18:31:35Z
dc.date.copyright1992en_US
dc.date.issued1992
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Linguistics
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractIn Lushootseed, a Coast Salish language, reduplication is a very productive process of word formation. There exist seven different types of reduplication which take four forms. The diversity of reduplication in this language creates problems in proposing a generalization to account for the process. A minimal set of templates must account for four different forms. Endeavoring to provide such a generalization is an important contribution to the study of language, as universals lend valuable insight into the nature of Salish languages and indeed, of all languages. Such a universal is possible using a prosodic framework proposed by Mc­Carthy and Prince (1986). The theory of Prosodic Morphology is a template representation system that attempts to account for various allomorphs by means of a shape-invariant that is prosodic in nature. Utilizing this framework, I propose in this paper an analysis of reduplication in Lushootseed. Essentially, all four forms can be accounted for with a small set of templates of varying prosodic weights.en
dc.format.extent78 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/18452
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectUN SDG 4: Quality Educationen
dc.titleReduplication in lushootseed : a prosodic analysisen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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