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<div dir="auto">Hello, </div>
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<div dir="auto">No references come to mind, only two more examples with a superlative function from BCMS (Bosnian-Croatian-Mobntenegrin-Serbian): </div>
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<div dir="auto">na kraju krajeva 'at the end of the day, lit. on end of (all) ends'</div>
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<div dir="auto">dno dna 'rock bottom, used metaphorically, often to describe someone's reprehensive behaviour or acts, lit. bottom of (the) bottom'</div>
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<div dir="auto">Best, </div>
<div dir="auto">Stefan</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 6, 2025, 6:46 PM Joseph Brooks via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I'm wondering if anyone knows of any (cross-ling or for specific languages) work on this type of construction where a noun/phrase can be fully reduplicated for a superlative function
or other meanings such as an especially remarkable or exaggerated instance of something. For ex in Chini (Lower Sepik-Ramu, PNG) anggunu 'mosquito' vs anggunu anggunu '(place known for) especially bad mosquitoes'. Or as in English 'man's man', 'deal of deals'.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thanks,</div>
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