macho man

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Feb 12 12:03:04 UTC 2002


At 8:36 PM +0000 2/12/02, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>
>But considering that the great number of pleonasms probably involve
>hyponymy, I'd say we need a word for hyponym-free pleonasms (the marked
>case) more than we need a term for the unmarked situation of hyponym-ful
>pleonasms!
>
Ain't that [the hyponym-free pleonasm] the oxymoron?

Larry



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