reduplication?
If you make the tuna salad I'll make the "salad-salad"
That car is mine but it isn't "mine mine" it's my brother's
I like him but I don't "like-like" him
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Yes, reduplication. – May 07 '19 at 16:48
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From Wikipedia: *Reduplication in linguistics is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.* But this is domain-specific terminology. – FumbleFingers May 07 '19 at 16:49
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From @FumbleFingers’s link these, specifically, are examples of *Contrastive focus reduplication* – Jim May 07 '19 at 16:58
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The best part of reduplication is reduplication reduplication. Just keep adding likes to add more emphasis. “But what if he doesn’t like, like-like me?!" “You mean, what if he like… only like-likes you?” – Lofty Withers May 08 '19 at 04:38
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Very idiomatic. I use it quite a lot (UK). If I don't say "...the car isn't mine mine; it's my brother's", I might say instead "...the car isn't really mine; it's my brother's". Although it's a bit of a mouthful, the best label for this usage seems to be contrastive focus reduplication (see answer below). – Dan May 08 '19 at 09:43
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Reduplication works. This type of reduplication can also be called contrastive focus reduplication or lexical cloning 1 2 3.
Reduplication more generally includes combinations like willy nilly and clip clop 4.
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+1 for 'contrastive focus reduplication'. (btw your links are not very helpfully organised; try to make the word itself the link rather than the tiny superscript) – Dan May 08 '19 at 09:46