14 PREPOSITION REDUPLICATION IN ICELANDIC Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson ABSTRACT This chapter discusses the basic properties of preposition reduplication (P-reduplication) in Icelandic with some comparative data from the other Germanic languages. Under Nunes’ (2001, 2004) theory of the lineariza- tion of chain links, it can be argued that P-reduplication involves three steps: (i) movement of a preposition to a functional head position within an extended PP, (ii) reanalysis of the moved preposition, and (iii) the creation of a higher copy of the preposition, either through fronting of the remnant PP (wh-movement or topoicalization in Modern Icelandic) or leftward movement of the preposition (Old Icelandic). Whichever option is involved in step (iii), the highest copy of the preposition and the reanalyzed copy are overtly realized. The proposed analysis also accounts for the fact that a grammar allowing P-reduplication (with wh-movement or topicalization) also allows preposition stranding but not vice versa. Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling Syntax and Semantics, Volume 36 Copyright © 2008 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved ISSN: 0092-4563/doi:10.1016/S0092-4563(08)36014-0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Emerald_SS-V036_ch14.indd 401 Emerald_SS-V036_ch14.indd 401 7/12/08 2:35:17 AM 7/12/08 2:35:17 AM