On the emergence of the verb repetition construction in Masana-Gizey
12:00 - 13:00
Guillaume Guitang
Lectures, talks and seminars
Language and Linguistics Departmental Seminar
Language and Linguistics, Department of
Joseph Lovestrand joseph.lovestrand@essex.ac.uk
Situations in which a verb is repeated within a sentence are common, and, generally, the process is iconic: more of the same verb is more of its meaning.
Sometimes, however, repetition is non-iconic. These non-iconic instances raise an important question: why repeat? In this talk, I discuss a little-understood verb repetition construction, verb doubling, in the Masana-Gizey continuum (Chad and Cameroon) and sketch a scenario for its emergence.
This talk will be presented both in-person (CTC 2.05) and online and is open to all who are interested.