Μερικός αναδιπλασιασμός στις Καππαδοκικές διαλέκτους

Abstract

Partial reduplication with (quasi-)fixed segmentism in Cappadocian is discussed as a morphological phenomenon induced by contact with Turkish. It is argued that the reduplicant in both languages is a tiered affix whose phonemic melody is not determined and hence is defined by that of the base. This reveals an asymmetry between the source and the recipient languages in employing reduplication and in the nature of the reduplicant affix, which should be accounted for language specifically. The discussion also verifies that global copying is almost confined to lexical borrowing, whereas morphological borrowing is almost always selective.