Emphatic affirmative verb reduplication in Spanish
Implications for the theory of multiple copy realization
Abstract
In this article, I present a type of verb reduplication observed in Rioplatense Spanish that has not yet been discussed in the literature. This type of construction, which I will call emphatic affirmative verb reduplication, is similar to a type of reduplication present in European Portuguese but has specific properties that make it different and it simultaneously motivates an alternative analysis to that proposed in the literature. Here, I provide a comprehensive description of the phenomenon, situating it within the set of other reduplications, and outline a syntactic proposal that captures the main properties of the phenomenon.
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emphatic affirmative reduplication, Rioplatense Spanish, local reduplication, copy theory, periphrasisReferences
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