A survey of Breton expressive words
Melanie Jouitteau
June 2022 

This paper provides an organized ranking and a discussion of expressives in Breton. Expressives are defined as expressions whose morphophonology is not entirely arbitrary, 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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Reference:	lingbuzz/006892 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Expressivity in the European Linguistic Sphere, Cambridge University Press
keywords:	expressivity, taboo words, iconicity, morphology, reduplication, syntax, breton, celtic
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