摘要：The present study focuses on three types of full reduplication in Persian: pure, medial, and final full reduplication. It explores the syntactic and semantic properties of the above processes within the framework of Morphological Doubling Theory (MDT) (Inkelas & Zoll 2005). The question addressed here is: do the existing patterns of Persian full reduplication distinguish between phonological copying and morphological doubling, and if so, is the MDT approach to reduplication adequate in accommodating the data? The answer, as revealed by the study, is that the phenomena are clearly morphological in nature, and MDT accommodates them as long as the semantics of constructions is concerned. Among the most important findings of this study, the following are worth mentioning: patterns of Persian full reduplication are not limited to the morpheme or word level but, rather, they cover a range of linguistic expressions from a single word to an entire syntactic construction; the semantic feature bundle of the output of Persian full reduplication may vary on a relative continuum ranging from iconic to totally idiomatic/metaphorical meanings and, in some cases, it is affected by contextual parameters; and finally, patterns of Persian full reduplication are sometimes of stylistic significance and are subject to certain register restrictions.
