Types of reduplication: A case study of Bikol

Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgments
Abbreviations and map
1. Introduction
2. Bikol
2.1 The language and the data
2.2 A grammar sketch of Bikol
2.2.1 Phonology and morphophonology
2.2.1.1 The phoneme inventory
2.2.1.2 Nasal assimilation
2.2.1.3 /h/-epenthesis
2.2.1.4 /r/ and /l/
2.2.2 Prosody
2.2.2.1 Syllable structure
2.2.2.2 Stress
2.2.3 Spelling
2.2.4 Lexicon
2.2.4.1 Content words and function words
2.2.4.2 Categories of roots and the question of parts of speech
2.2.5 Morphosyntax
2.2.5.1 Sentence structure and phrase marking
2.2.5.2 Voice- and TAM-affixes
2.2.5.3 Linking
2.2.5.4 Properties and states
2.2.5.5 Further derivations
2.2.5.6 Plural
3. Reduplication
3.1 A cursory overview of studies on reduplication
3.2 Defining the scope of the study
3.3 Excluded phenomena
3.4 Classification of reduplication types
3.4.1 Formal types
3.4.2 Functional classification
3.4.3 Correspondence between form and function
4. Productive reduplication in Bikol
4.1 A survey of the productive reduplication types in Bikol
4.2 Imperfective reduplication
4.2.1 Form
4.2.1.1 Reduplicant
4.2.1.2 Assimilation
4.2.1.3 Base of reduplication
4.2.1.4 Output constraints
4.2.1.5 Imperfective reduplication and infixation
4.2.2 Function
4.2.2.1 Aspect marking for actions and events
4.2.2.2 Continuative aspect in nominalized words
4.2.3 Diachronic development of aspect systems in Central Philippine languages
4.3 CV-reduplication with numerals
4.4 Infixal {Vr}-reduplication for plural actors
4.4.1 Form
4.4.2 Function
4.4.3 The special status of the {Vr}-infix-reduplicant from a synchronic and diachronic perspective
4.4.4 Infixal reduplication and other affixes
4.4.5 Plural reduplication for ma-derived word forms
4.5 Full reduplication
4.5.1 Form and meaning of full reduplication
4.5.2 Phonotactic conditions for full reduplication
4.5.3 The Curu-prefix
4.5.4 Homonymity of type I and type II
4.5.5 Different accent patterns for different meanings?
4.5.6 Disambiguation of homonymous full reduplication of type I and type II from context
4.5.7 Differentiation of the meaning nuances of type I through the interaction of the semantics of the base and reduplication
4.5.8 Semantic and cognitive explanations for the polysemy of plural and diminutive
4.5.9 Polysemy as a strategy in optimization of language
4.5.10 Summary: semantic categorization of Bikol full reduplication as “Change of quantity”
4.6 Combinations of various reduplication types
5. Lexical reduplication in Bikol
5.1 Formal patterns of lexical reduplications
5.2 Semantic classification: lexical reduplications as a subgroup of expressives
5.2.1 SENSE
5.2.2 MOVEMENT & PLURALITY
5.2.3 NAME
5.2.4 BAD
5.3 Iconicity of lexical reduplications
5.4 Numerical distribution of lexical reduplication
6. Summary of the main topics and concluding remarks
6.1 Iconicity of reduplication
6.2 Plurality and reduplication
6.3 Reference to central questions of the research on reduplication
6.4 Further perspectives
Appendix 1: Content of the dialogues, poems and stories of the corpus
Appendix 2: Bisyllabic reduplicated roots
Appendix 3: Lexical partial reduplication
Appendix 4: Lexical full reduplication
Appendix 5: Echo-words
Appendix 6: Productive partial reduplication
Appendix 7: Productive full (and Curu-)reduplication
References
Index of authors
Index of languages
Index of subjects