Emphatic affirmative verb reduplication in Spanish

In this article, I present a type of verb reduplication observed in Rioplatense Spanish that has not yet been discussed in the literature. This type of construction, which I will call emphatic affirmative verb reduplication, is similar to a type of reduplication present in European Portuguese but ha...

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Published in:	Isogloss Vol. 10; no. 6
Main Author:	María Florencia Silva
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 01-10-2024
Subjects:	copy theory emphatic affirmative reduplication local reduplication periphrasis Rioplatense Spanish
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Summary:	In this article, I present a type of verb reduplication observed in Rioplatense Spanish that has not yet been discussed in the literature. This type of construction, which I will call emphatic affirmative verb reduplication, is similar to a type of reduplication present in European Portuguese but has specific properties that make it different and it simultaneously motivates an alternative analysis to that proposed in the literature. Here, I provide a comprehensive description of the phenomenon, situating it within the set of other reduplications, and outline a syntactic proposal that captures the main properties of the phenomenon.
ISSN:	2385-4138
DOI:	10.5565/rev/isogloss.464