On Similative Reduplication in Vietnamese
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5899985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tue Trinh (0000-0002-6362-0974, University of Nova Gorica, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 150 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages10070150 |
| OpenAlex | W4411614535 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Vietnamese has a productive reduplication strategy where the reduplicant appears to the right of the base and is segmentally identical to the base except that its last rime is iếc (pronounced [ɪək]). In this note, I attempt to account for some observations about iếc, including the fact that it gives rise to ignorance inferences and is incompatible with classifiers. I propose that the semantics of iếc parallel the pragmatics of disjunctions and that the notion of similarity underlying the interpretation of iếc is contextual while that underlying the interpretation of classifiers is grammatical. The proposal makes use of some tools of predicate logic and formal semantics
Linguistics · Reduplication · Vietnamese · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Vietnamese
Any
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |