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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Quang's research (was: Terminology question)
In-Reply-To: mcguire@telerama.lm.com's message of 23 Sep 1994 23:21:49 -0400
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In article <36060d$2th@asia.lm.com> mcguire@telerama.lm.com (Rod McGuire)
writes:

>In article <35s90i$tn@linus.mitre.org>, Dale Hall <wdh@linus.mitre.org> wrote:
>[modulo my edits]:

>>I have a question about an unusual construction in English (or American)
>>slang, shown in the examples:
>>
>>	"abso-bloomin'-lutely"  (from a song in "My Fair Lady")
>>
>>	"guaran-damn-tee"       (Southwest American slang) 	
>>
>>where the insertion of an interjection/expletive intensifies the absolute
>>meaning.
>>The question is: does this construction have a name?

>Yes, I think (but I don't have references at hand to verify this) that this
>construction was named "fucking-insertion" in a paper by the famed Vietnamese
>Porno-Linguist, Quang Phuc Dong, or one of his buddies.  The examples in that
>paper were something like:

[examples elided *only* for reasons of space  --rma]

>The only pointer I have at hand is:

>  Quang Phuc Dong. 1971. "The applicability of transformations to idioms."
>  Chicago Linguistics Society proceedings #7:198-205.

[what I said before  --rma]

>Since you (Dale) are interested in this, why don't you go to the library and
>do some research. I suggest you start with Quang (1971) and its references,
>and then scan contemporaneous CLS proceedings for papers by Quang or papers
>that have either really innocent or outrageous titles.

I would suggest the Quang P. D. papers in _Studies out in Left Field_, the
first McCawley festschrift.  It was reprinted in 1992 to accompany the then-new
festschrift for his 60th, so it should be easy to find.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
