A morphological Study of Reduplication in English with Reference to Arabic | ||
| Journal Of Al-Frahids Arts | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 13, July 2017, Pages 70-83 | ||
| Author | ||
| Hanan Khatab Omer | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Language is the best means of human communication changing from time to time by language contact, interference or borrowing from other languages. The influence of such changes is reflected in the appearance of new vocabulary items represented by word formation processes. Reduplication ( henceforth Red.) , one of those fertile process, is a linguistic phenomenon found in phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic levels. Since this study is morphologically concerned, the term Reduplication indicates the recurrence of a morpheme completely like(pooh-pooh) or partially like(tiptop) (Crystal, 2003 : 391, Nadarajan, 2006 :39 and Katamba & Stomham, 2006: 180). Red. is appeared with various conventions: reinforcement, reiteration, recurrence or repetition , but it is distinguished from others in certain characteristics. What discriminates Red. from others are: A- It is a mere morphological formation. B- Its wider structure deals with the repetition of roots, stems and affixes or individual words. C- Its repetitive elements are often juxtaposed(Gil, 2005: 33,37). Red. is widely used in the grammar of some languages although its level of linguistic productivity varies. Proceeding from the concept of universality, English and Arabic languages are to be compared by examining types, features and functions of reduplication to pinpoint the similarity and difference of both languages. This study shows how we construct word formation rules in creating inflectional and derivational morphemes exhibiting reduplication. Besides, It aims at revealing similarities and differences between both languages concerning Red. to facilitate the process of learning such topic in general. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| A morphological Study of Reduplication in English with; Reference to Arabic | ||
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