Scopal Effects of Reduplication

Abstract

This paper is based on the observation that while reduplication of inflected morphemes in South Asian Languages (henceforth SALs), usually copies the base only, certain contexts, both in verbal and nominal morphemes cause obligatory copying of the inflection. In the light of relevant literature, the paper explores the semantic and phonological structure of these constructions, and the manner in which these differ from other reduplicated structures in SALs.