The pragmatics of morphological negation: pejorative and euphemistic uses of the prefix non- in French

In this paper I examine a particular type of morphological negation in French, namely non- prefixation on nominal bases (e.g. non-violence ‘nonviolence’). Drawing on a wide range of authentic examples from the Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé (TLFi), the French literary database Frantext a...

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Main Author: Edwige Dugas
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Vilnius University Press 2014-03-01
Series:Taikomoji kalbotyra
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Online Access:https://www.journals.vu.lt/taikomojikalbotyra/article/view/17466