Poetic contrastive focus reduplication
From Nancy Friedman — Billy Collins, "After the Funeral", in Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems, 2013:
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Ask Language Log: Raped-raped-raped
MM writes: I would like to hear your take on the following: In episode 8/2 of House, he recounts his prison experience to his colleagues: I wasn't raped. Well, perhaps I was raped, but not raped raped. Well, perhaps I was raped raped, but not raped raped raped. This is not a simple intensifier (as […]
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Today's Sheldon takes Contrastive Focus Reduplication up a notch: [Tip of the hat to David Craig]
How great would that be?
Hilary is finished with contrastive focus reduplication, and is now exploring the communicative potential of re-framing rhetorical questions as real ones: