What is it about?
This article proposes a semantic constraint on a variety of meanings that reduplicative constructions (such as 'flip-flop' in English) across language have.
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Why is it important?
There is currently no unifying account of the wide diversity of meanings reduplicative constructions have. All current proposals capture only a proportion of the meanings reduplicative constructions exhibit. Hence, the article proposes one constraint that can capture the wide variation as well as commonalities in the meanings of reduplication across languages.
Perspectives
The semantic constrain proposed in this article has been couched in terms that appeal to both logical and cognitive aspects of linguistic meaning. This aligns well with my prior work on the unification of logical and cognitive aspects of linguistic meaning.
Dr Prakash Mondal
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
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This page is a summary of: A semantic constraint on the variation in meanings of reduplicative constructions, Linguistics Vanguard, April 2026, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2025-0193.
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