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ETYMOLOGIZING DEPRECATORY REDUPLICATIVE COMPOUNDS OF THE TYPES FLIM-FLAM AND HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY (PART II)

Publication date: 19.10.2018

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2018, Volume 135, Issue 3, pp. 147 - 158

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.18.012.8848

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William Sayers
Cornell University, Ithaca
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-6649 Orcid
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ETYMOLOGIZING DEPRECATORY REDUPLICATIVE COMPOUNDS OF THE TYPES FLIM-FLAM AND HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY (PART II)

Abstract

Sample English reduplicative compounds on the model of flim-flam and higgledy-piggledy are analyzed for the interplay of formal features (alliteration, vowel alternation, rhyme), semantics (as parts and wholes), and obscure origins. Loans, new coinages, internal realignment, register, and affect are discussed. Inadequacies in earlier lexicographical, especially etymological, treatment are remedied.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2018, Volume 135, Issue 3, pp. 147 - 158

Article type: Original article

Titles:

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ETYMOLOGIZING DEPRECATORY REDUPLICATIVE COMPOUNDS OF THE TYPES FLIM-FLAM AND HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY (PART II)

English:

ETYMOLOGIZING DEPRECATORY REDUPLICATIVE COMPOUNDS OF THE TYPES FLIM-FLAM AND HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY (PART II)

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-6649

William Sayers
Cornell University, Ithaca
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-6649 Orcid
All publications →

Cornell University, Ithaca

Published at: 19.10.2018

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