#contrastive reduplication

[astronautpirate]

You know what I love? Contrastive reduplication.

Like today, I went through a line in the dining hall that was serving both burgers and nachos. I told the guy I wanted cheese on my burger.

Him: Nacho cheese?

Me: No, cheese cheese.

[diehard-fangirl]

You know what’s cute? When humans do contrastive reduplication.

[computationalcalculator]

Do you hate them? Or do you HATE hate them?

teenage trolls, probably

[elizabolt]

I got to use "contrastive reduplication" in a real-world situation today and this is easily the high point of my day.

[gifsforthemasses]

[browseallday]

12 May 2014

Contrastive reduplication (also lexical cloning) is a type of syntactic reduplication that indicates the prototypical meaning of the repeated word or phrase. In 1982, Paul Dickson, an American writer, coined the term word word to describe this.

[domme-chronicles]

I saw you reblogged my thing on the way we repeat words (e.g., "milk-milk" or "salad-salad") - do you have an interest in linguistics?

I loved that post so much! 

I don’t have a *particular* interest in linguistics (though I do find language fascinating), but I adore learning things that I didn’t even know I was curious about until I read the explanation and go ‘Oooohhhhhh!!’ and that was a beauty!

I also just love it when people get all explainy over obscure things - people being passionate and knowledgeable is sexy. I like to imagine them at a dinner party excitedly going “LOOK LOOK!”