http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/x-rape/ A blog mostly about language Fri, 24 May 2013 15:22:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/x-rape/#comment-32123 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:16:06 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11668#comment-32123 Contrastive Focus Reduplication; see here, among other places. That is, not really a compound.

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/x-rape/#comment-32122 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:10:50 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11668#comment-32122 There’s also Whoopi Goldberg’s very unfortunate emphatic reduplication ‘rape rape’, which can be used to contrast it with the others (though unfairly so).

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