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Words like røvsyg ‘extremely boring, lit. ass-sick’ and møgvejr ‘vile weather, lit. dung-weather’ represent an attitude-driven, expressive use of language. In this type of com- position, there is an inventory of intensifying first parts, e.g., død- ‘dead-’, hunde- ‘dog-’, møg- ‘dung-’, pisse- ‘piss-’, røv- ‘ass-’, smadder- ‘smash-’ with different relations to their head. In this article, these connections are described phonologically, morphologically, and semantically. The two composition types, røvsyg and møgvejr, each have their own stress distribution: in the first type, two main stresses, in the second type, the normal distribution in compounds: main plus secondary stress. Double main stress as in røvsyg is due to the core element syg ‘sick’ being gradable, and it is this type of composition that is the main topic of the article. We establish our data of words with expressive first parts from the Dictionary of (Modern) Danish (DDO).
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