Idiomaticity of reduplicated forms

Affiliation:
Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij

Affiliation:
Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Stockholm University
Address: Russian Federation, Москва

Journal name

Voprosy Jazykoznanija

Edition

Issue 6

Pages

51-67

Abstract

The present paper deals with the expressions vot-vot, von-von, nu-nu, ku-ku, tak-tak, net-net and some others based on reduplication. These lexical units exhibit a nontrivial combination of properties related to iconicity and idiomaticity. Some of these units, taken in certain meanings, are idioms, others are idiomatic without being idioms, and still others lack even a minimal degree of idiomaticity. The degree of idiomaticity is inversely proportional to the iconicity of semantics. The reduplicated form net-net is idiomatic in the sense that it has a speciﬁc scope extending to different levels of the meaning of the previous context, and does not correspond to the scope of ordinary negation. The paper discusses examples of the use of the unit net-net, demonstrating the various features of its semantic scope.

Keywords

iconicity, idiomaticity, idioms, lexical reduplication, negation, reduplicated forms, semantic scope

Acknowledgment

The research is supported by the grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research No. 17-04-00420-ОГН.

Received

17.12.2019

Publication date

20.12.2019

Number of characters

48830

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GOST	Baranov A., Dobrovol’skij D. Idiomaticity of reduplicated forms // Voprosy Jazykoznanija – 2019. – Issue 6 C. 51-67 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/vopjaz/s0373658x0007546-9-1-en (circulation date: 19.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0007546-9
MLA	Baranov, Anatoly, Dobrovol’skij, Dmitrij "Idiomaticity of reduplicated forms." Voprosy Jazykoznanija 6 (2019):51-67. DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0007546-9
APA	Baranov A., Dobrovol’skij D. (2019). Idiomaticity of reduplicated forms. Voprosy Jazykoznanija (6), pp.51-67 DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0007546-9

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