Doubling and register variation (A10*)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416591334

In some cases, a logical expression can be signaled by one or more overt morphemes, apparently without a change in meaning. This project investigates the hypothesis that optional morphological doubling is cross-linguistically correlated with a particular situational-functional property of discourse - namely, to what extent a unique Question Under Discussion is retrievable - and thus to register.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1412: Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
• Applicant Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Artemis Alexiadou; Professorin Dr. Viola Schmitt, until 6/2025