[Lingtyp] Evaluative morphology expressing "authenticity/prototypicality"

[Chao Li]

Dear Francesca,



English “contrastive reduplications” or “lexical clones” appear to be
relevant too. The following examples are from Ghomeshi et al. 2004 (p.308
for example 1, p.311 (2), and p.312 (3-4), with bolding added):



(1) I’ll make the tuna salad, and you make the *SALAD-salad*.

(2) Look at all the yellow vans on the road. Not vans like ours [i.e.

      minivans], but *VAN-vans*.

(3) I had a *JOB-job* once. [i.e. a “real” 9-to-5 office job, as opposed to
an

      academic job]

(4) A: Are you nervous?

      B: Yeah, but, you know, not *NERVOUS-nervous*. [i.e. not “really”

            nervous]



Best,

Chao



Ghomeshi, Jila, Ray Jackendoff, Nicole Rosen & Kevin Russell. 2004.
Contrastive focus reduplication in English (the salad-salad paper). *Natural
Language & Linguistic Theory* 22: 307-357.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 1:09 PM Francesca Masini via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> Dear Lingtyp community,
>
>
>
> I’m looking for examples of evaluative word-formation processes
> (affixation, compounding, reduplication, etc.) conveying
> “authenticity/prototypicality” (Grandi & Körtvélyessy 2015: 11). Some
> relevant examples would be:
>
>
>
> (1)
>
> Kwaza (van der Voort 2015: 608)
>
> kanwa-tete
>
> canoe-INT
>
> ‘real canoe’
>
>
>
> (2)
>
> Warlpiri (Bowler 2015: 439)
>
> warna-nyayirni
>
> snake-AUG
>
> ‘poisonous snake’ [“[i]n central Australia, the characteristic of being
> poisonous or dangerous is a highly salient feature of many indigenous
> snakes”]
>
>
>
> (3)
>
> Kikuyu (Komu 2008: 50; quoted in Mattiola & Barotto 2023: 150)
>
> irio > irioirio
>
> ‘food’ > ‘real food (not junk food)’
>
>
>
> I would be extremely grateful for your help!
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Francesca
>
>
>
> REFERENCES
>
> Bowler, Margit. 2015. Warlpiri. In Nicola Grandi & Livia Körtvelyessy
> (eds.), *The Edinburgh handbook of evaluative morphology*, 438–447.
> Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
>
> Grandi, Nicola & Lívia Körtvelyessy. 2015. Introduction: Why evaluative
> morphology? In Nicola Grandi & Lívia Körtvelyessy (Eds.), The Edinburgh
> handbook of evaluative morphology, 3-20. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
> Press.
>
> Komu, Mary W. 2008. An analysis of Gikuyu reduplication in the light of
> prosodic morphological approach. Nairobi: Kenyatta University MA thesis.
>
> Mattiola, Simone & Alessandra Barotto. 2023. Nominal reduplication in
> cross-linguistic perspective. From PLURALITY to CHANGE OF REFERENTS’
> SPECIFICITY. *Studies in Language *47(1). 135–189.
>
> van der Voort, Hein. 2015. Kwaza. In Nicola Grandi& Livia Körtvelyessy
> (eds.), *The Edinburgh handbook of evaluative morphology*, 606–615.
> Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
>
>
>
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