Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., and Daan P. Wissing. 2007. “Datagebaseerde aspekte van Afrikaanse reduplikasies [Data-based aspects of Afrikaans reduplications].” Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 25 (3):419-439.
Van Huyssteen & Wissing 2007
2007, Afrikaans, cognitive grammar, corpus linguistics, descriptive linguistics, phonology, reduplication
Abstract
This article is intended to address two under-explored aspects in Van Huyssteen (2000); namely; the verification of his findings and their refinement by means of a corpus of written Afrikaans; and also to provide a better description of the phonological pole of the Afrikaans reduplication construction. Within a usage-based approach it is shown that an adapted construction schema can be postulated for Afrikaans reduplications. So; for example; two semantic values; namely; ‘children’s language’ and ‘completed’ are removed from the construction schema; while ‘intensity’ and ‘continuous’ are rather regarded as the most prototypical semantic values of Afrikaans reduplications. By means of a variety of experiments using various statistical methods; it is shown that Member 1 of a reduplication differs from Member 2 thereof; in contrast to what has been maintained in the literature to date. This difference basically lies in stress as the acoustic results clearly show that Member 1 carries the main accent. Various comparative experiments with word repetitions and compounds are also conducted to confirm the results. This article not only contributes to Afrikaans descriptive linguistics; but also shows the benefits of data-based and datadriven linguistic research.
Written in:
Afrikaans
Dealing with:
Afrikaans
Keywords
Afrikaans, cognitive grammar, corpus linguistics, descriptive linguistics, phonology, reduplication
Afrikaans keywords
Afrikaans, beskrywende taalkunde, fonologie, kognitiewe grammatika, korpuslinguistiek, reduplikasie