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The layering of form and meaning in creole word-formation

A view from construction morphology

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  • Author(s): Ana R. Luís 1
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    1 University of Coimbra
  • Source: Morphology and Meaning , pp 223-238
  • Publication Date February 2014

This paper examines the interaction between form and meaning in creole word-formation, drawing on evidence from Kriyol, a Portuguese-based creole spoken in Guiné-Bissau. The goal will be to illustrate how full reduplication interacts in complex ways with other morphological operations such as conversion, derivation and inflection. A formal morphological analysis of the layering between form and meaning will be sketched, within Construction Morphology, which treats full reduplication as a genuine lexeme-formation process. Within this word-based theory, the interaction between morphological operations is captured through the unification of construction schemas.

  • Affiliations: 1: University of Coimbra

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    1998 A Theory of Predicates. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
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    2005 “Morphological Doubling Theory: Evidence for Morphological Doubling in Reduplication”. Studies on Reduplicationed. by Bernhard Hurch in collaboration with Veronika Mattes , 65–89. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511627712
     https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627712 [Google Scholar]
  14. Inkelas, Sharon & Cheryl Zoll
    2005 Reduplication: Doubling in Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511627712
     https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627712 [Google Scholar]
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     https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22851-5 [Google Scholar]
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    1994 Kriyol Syntax: The Portuguese-Based Creole Language of Guinea-Bissau. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cll.14
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    1992 Deconstructing Morphology. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press.
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  20. Luís, Ana R
    2008 “Tense Marking and Inflectional Morphology in Indo-Portuguese”. Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the Contribution of Substrates and Superstratesed. by Susanne Michaelis , 83–121. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cll.33.07lui
     https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.33.07lui [Google Scholar]
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     https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199589982.003.0012 [Google Scholar]
  22. 2012 “Total Reduplication and Multiple Exponence: Redundant Doubling of Derivational Suffixes in Creole Morphology”. Paper presented at the Workshop on total reduplication: morphological, pragmatic and typological issues. Université Libre de Bruxelles, November 2012.
     [Google Scholar]
  23. Mello, Maria Aparecida Curupaná da Rocha
    2007 A questão da produtividade morfológica no Guineense. Ph.D. dissertation, Universidade de Brasília.
     [Google Scholar]
  24. Plag, Ingo
    2008 “Creoles as Interlanguages: Inflectional Morphology”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages23:1.109–130.10.1075/jpcl.23.1.06pla
     https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.23.1.06pla [Google Scholar]
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  26. Siegel, Jeff
    2008 The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
     [Google Scholar]

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