Contrastive focus reduplication

[1] "As a rough approximation, we can say that the reduplicated modifier singles out a member or subset of the extension of the noun that represents a true, real, default, or prototype instance.

Early work on the construction referred to it as double or lexical cloning due to its superficial characteristics.

[5] It is primarily employed as a form of repair in order to reinforce a speaker's true intended meaning.

[4][2] The authors of the article that defined contrastive focus reduplication collected a corpus of examples in English.

[11] A phrasal example in the language will be; "qartela, ina lela qarta-qarta" (which translates to, "it's cold, but it's not cold-cold").

A meatless salad may be referred to as a salad-salad , as opposed to a tuna salad .