Wilbur Ronnie B
Linguistics Program, Purdue University, 500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Lang Sci. 2009;31(2-3):325-342. doi: 10.1016/j.langsci.2008.12.017.
The question to be addressed in this paper is how a language which is fundamentally monosyllabic in structure can have about a dozen different reduplication types with at least eight different linguistic functions. The language under discussion, American Sign Language (ASL), is one representative of a class of languages that makes widespread use of reduplication for lexical and morphological purposes. The goal here is to present the set of phonological features that permit the productive construction of these forms and a first approximation to the feature geometry in which they participate. Reduplication forms are dependent on the event structure of the predicate and the associated aspectual modifications.
本文要探讨的问题是，一种结构上基本为单音节的语言，如何能有大约十二种不同的重叠类型以及至少八种不同的语言功能。正在讨论的语言——美国手语（ASL），是一类为了词汇和形态目的而广泛使用重叠的语言的代表。这里的目标是呈现出允许这些形式进行有效构建的音系特征集，以及它们所参与的特征结构的初步近似。重叠形式取决于谓语的事件结构以及相关的体貌修饰。
