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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Language: | deu |
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Vilnius University Press
2014-03-01
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Series: | Taikomoji kalbotyra |
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Online Access: | https://www.journals.vu.lt/taikomojikalbotyra/article/view/17466 |