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9 - A survey of expressive words in Breton

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2023

By
Mélanie Jouitteau
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Jeffrey P. Williams
Jeffrey P. Williams
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Texas Tech University
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This chapter provides an organized ranking and a discussion of expressives in Breton. Expressives are defined as expressions whose morphophonology is not entirely arbitrary, but partly iconic. I provide an inventory of them in Breton, a Celtic modern language spoken in Western France in a bilingual context with French. I discuss the productivity of the operations of expressive morphology, their exclusive use for expressive means, and their degree of iconicity. I show for each category in turn what operations or structures might be exclusive to expressive words.

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expressivitytaboo wordsiconicitymorphologyreduplicationsyntaxBretonCeltic
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Expressivity in European Languages , pp. 295 - 310
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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