Most scholars define reduplication as a formally restricted grammatical process neatly
distinguishing it from 'mere' repetition as a discoursal option. However there is a fuzzy grey
area between the two processes that has rarely been explored so far. In this timely collection
the phenomenon of exact repetition understood broadly as the systematic iteration of one and
the same linguistic item within relatively close syntactic proximity is investigated from a
number of angles. The volume contains studies from phonology morphology syntax semantics
and pragmatics and deals with a broad range of languages including alleged 'reduplication
avoiders'. In bringing together different theoretical perspectives phenomenological domains
and methodologies and in linking the fields of syntax and discourse to those of morphology and
morphophonology the volume provides new insights into the structure and meaning of exact
repetition phenomena and more generally into their status within a theory of language. The
collection will appeal to formally and functionally oriented scholars from all subfields of
linguistics including typology.
