CRC 1412/2: Doubling and register variation (SP A10)
At a glance
Project duration
01/2024
– 12/2027
DFG classification of subject areas
Linguistics
Funded by
DFG Collaborative Research Centre
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Project description
In some cases, a logical expression can be signaled by one or more overt morphemes, apparently without a change in meaning. This project investigates the hypothesis that optional morphological doubling is cross-linguistically correlated with a particular situational-functional property of discourse -- namely, to what extent a unique Question Under Discussion is retrievable -- and thus to register.
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Cooperation partners
- Cooperation partnerNon-university research institutionGermany
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft