development of reduplication

[Peter Bakker]

Many creoles have reduplication (but almost no pidgins).
If the lexifiers are the "parent languages", then creoles developed them, because
French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic hardly have productive reduplication.
There is a book on the subject, you can order it from: 
http://www.battlebridge.com/

Twice as Meaningful 
Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles, and Other Contact Languages
Edited by Silvia Kouwenberg, vi + 330 pages, map, index. ISBN 1 903292 02 6. £25 (Westminster Creolistics Series - 8)

Peter Bakker




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