Trying to remember a paper on language I read - within the last year, I think - that involved intensifying reduplication, where you repeat the name of something to indicate that you mean the standard type of that something. Like:

"Do you want natural peanut butter?"
"No, I want /peanut butter/ peanut butter."

@noelle I'm a fan of the "-ass" construction, e.g. "it's just a car-ass car. It doesn't fly or anything."

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