Reduplication and Blocking Effects in Japanese

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  • 日本語における畳語とブロッキング効果について

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This paper discusses two issues related to reduplicative forms (R-forms) in Japanese. The main data we focus on include such examples as taka·daka-to ‘highly’, waka·waka-sii　‘young-looking’, iro·iro-na ‘various’. The first issue has to do with categorization of these R-forms. Extending an analysis of categorization of roots developed by Embick & Marantz (2008), Borer (2013), Chomsky (2015), we claim that R-forms are unspecified as to syntactic category and get categorized via merger with a categorydefining functional element. The second issue has to do with productivity and blocking effects R-forms exhibit. For productivity, we employ a version of the elsewhere condition to account for the fact that one type of R-forms show low productivity. For blocking effects, we compare two types of analyses. One is a traditional analysis of blocking represented by Aronoff (1976). The other is an analysis in the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). Our goal is to compare these two types of analyses and see how they manage to account for the Japanese data.

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  • 教育研究

    教育研究 (60), 91-102, 2018-03-31

    国際基督教大学

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