Contrastive focus reduplication
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Contrastive focus reduplication
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Contrastive focus reduplication, also called contrastive reduplication, identical constituent compounding, lexical cloning, or the double construction, is a type of syntactic reduplication found in some languages. Doubling a word or phrase – such as "do you like-like him?" – can indicate that the prototypical meaning of the repeated word or phrase is intended. In English, the first part of the reduplicant bears contrastive intonational stress. Contrastive focus reduplication in English can apply
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Grammatical phenomenon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrastive_focus_reduplication
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2024-02-29T17:53:10Z
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