Repetitive Structures in the Languages of East and Southeast Asia

The work aims at describing the form and the meaning of repetitive forms in a number of East and Southeast Asian languages belonging to the Sino- Tibetan, Tai, Austroasiatic and Miao-Yao language groups. The forms are preponderantly examined from a synchronic point of view but the historical aspect of repetition is also touched upon through Sinitic and Vietnamese materials, clearly the two quantitatively most dominant subcorpora within the entire corpus.