Two types of pluractionality within Kannada verbal reduplication

Abstract

Motivated by certain distributional and interpretive contrasts between Kannada reduplicated verbs carrying perfective vs. imperfective aspect-marking, here we pursue a view of these two constructions as instantiating two types of cross-linguistically attested pluractionalities — namely, event-external and event-internal pluractionality respectively. Such a characterization of Kannada reduplicated verbs allows us to borrow into their analysis several aspects of existing proposals for event-external and event-internal pluractionality, which in turn enables natural explanations for (many of) their distributional idiosyncracies.