REDUPLICATIVE SYLLABLES IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES

• Authors: Iwona Piechnik
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The article deals with the reduplications in Latin and in Romance languages. While in Latin there were only reduplications of monosyllables, Romance languages have a lot of polysyllabic (mostly disyllabic) reduplications. This development could arise due to a bigger expressivity of vulgar Latin mixed with vernacular languages and to their contacts with other languages: Germanic (mostly English and German), Celtic, Slavic, Turkic and Hungarian, in which the polysyllabic reduplication is the most common.

Keywords

PL

reduplication, repetition, doubling, Latin, Romance languages, monosyllables, polysyllables, syllables

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Romanica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2015

online

2016-02-12

Contributors

author

Iwona Piechnik