Introduction
Chapter One Theoretical Background
1.Optimality Theory
1.1 A General Introduction
1.2 Basic Concepts of OT
1.2.1 Markedness Constraint
1.2.2 Faithfulness Constraint
1.2.3 Conflicts between Markedness and Faithfulness
1.3 The OT grammar as an Input-Output Device
2.Reduplication in the Study of OT
2.1 Reduplication in OT
2.2 The Basic Model of the Correspondence Theory of Reduplication
3.Morphology and Phonology
4.Reduplication in World''s Languages
4.1 Reduplication in Languages Other than Chinese
4.2 Reduplication in Mandarin
4.2.1 Total Reduplication in Mandarin
4.2.2 Disyllabicity Requirement of Mandarin
Chapter Two Reduplication Data in Mandarin
1.Verb Reduplication
1.1 Different Patterns of Verb Reduplication
1.2 Grammatical Functions of Reduplicated Verbs
2.Adjective Reduplication
2.1 Different Patterns of Adjective Reduplication
2.1.1 AAABB
2.1.2 AABAB
2.1.3 AliAB and ABB
2.2 Grammatical Functions of Reduplicated Adjectives
3.Noun Reduplication
3.1 Reduplication of Measure Words
3.2 Reduplication of Kinship Terms
3.3 Grammatical Functions of Reduplicated Nouns
4.Adverb Reduplication
4.1 Different Patterns of Adverb Reduplication
4.1.1 AA
4.1.2 AAB
4.1.3 AABB
4.2 Grammatical Functions of Adverb Reduplication
5.Summary
Chapter Three AABB and ABAB Reduplication
1.The Prosodic Structure of the Reduplication
2.Morpho-syntactic Structure of AABB and ABAB Reduplication
2.1 Evidence from Third Tone Sandhi
2.2 Extra MRU Pattern for AABB
3.Special Patterns of Disyllabic Verb and Adjective Reduplication
3.1 VAABB
3.2 AABAB
4.AABB vs. ABAB Reduplication
Chapter Four An OT Analysis of Reduplication in Mandarin
1.AABB and ABAB Reduplication in the OT Framework
1.1 Realize-μ and * σσσ
1.1.1 *σσσ
1.1.2 Realize-μ
1.2 Alignment
1.2.1 Generalized Alignment
1.2.1.1 The Format of Alignment Constraints
1.2.1.2 Alignment and Infixation in Tagalog
1.2.2 Align Verb, MRU and Align Adjective, MRU
1.3 Linearity
1.4 Summary
2.AAB Reduplication for Verb-Object Verbs
3.Adjective Reduplication AliAB
3.1 Property of "li" ~
3.2 * [σoLT and Align-li-L
4.Adverb Reduplication
5.Summary
Chapter Five A Ternary OT Model for the Mandarin Reduplication
1.Introduction
1.1 Morpheme Realization in Zoque
1.2 Ineffability in Mandarin Chinese
1.3 Double Affixation in English
1.4 The Ternary Model of Morphology-Phonology Correspondence
2.The Ternary Model in Zoque
3.Application of the Ternary Model in Mandarin Reduplication
3.1 Distributive Forms of Monosyllabic and Disyllabic Classifiers
3.2 Double Affixation
4.Summary
Chapter Six Conclusions
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