LANGUAGE INTERFERENCE IN UNEXPECTED ENVIRONMENTON THE NITTY-GRITTY OF THE MAIN PATTERNS OF REDUPLICATION AS A WORD-FORMATION DEVICE IN ENGLISH AND THEIR BULGARIAN COUNTERPARTSLANGUAGE INTERFERENCE IN UNEXPECTED ENVIRONMENT

VOL. 61, BOOK 1, PART B, 2023, pp. 71 – 87 Full text (En)

Author: Maria Kolarova

Affiliation: St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

Abstract
In English and Bulgarian, reduplication is a widespread word-formation mechanism whose resultant constructions display a high degree of expressivity and in some cases, a full degree of lexicalization. In both languages, reduplicatives can be classified in different ways in terms of their form and meaning but there are also formations whose nature remains ambiguous. This study is an attempt to identify the similarities and differences between English and Bulgarian regarding reduplication as a word-formation device.

Key words: reduplicatives, word-formation, reduplication types, English, Bulgarian