Dékány, Éva (2026) The (post-)syntax of repeater classifiers: A case study in Thai. JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS. pp. 1-30. ISSN 0022-2267, ESSN: 1469-7742
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226726101169
Abstract
This paper analyzes the structure of Noun Phrases with repeater classifiers (i.e., numeral classifiers that are only used with the single noun they are form-identical with). I show that a previous attempt to account for repeaters in terms of syntactic head movement encounters both empirical and theoretical problems. I suggest that repeaters emerge in the post-syntactic component, via a melody copying operation, which I characterize as a type of syntactic reduplication.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | classifier; echo classifier; reduplication; repeater; melody copying |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2026 06:24 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2026 06:24 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/243688 |
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