Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 East is East? Repetitions and reduplications in Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian -- 2 Predicative constructions with lexical repetitions in East Slavic languages: Roots and causes -- 3 Typology of reduplication in Russian: Constructions within and beyond a single clause -- 4 The Russian reduplicative construction of the gudit-gudit lit. 'It rumbles-rumbles' type: A syntactic idiom -- 5 Converging parallel paths: Reduplication and Topicalization in the development of durak durakom -- 6 Concessive-adversative reduplication of interrogative pronouns in Slavic languages -- 7 Kak že kak že! Russian discourse formula of confirmation as a marker of recognition -- Index