Negation and lexical morphology across languages: Insights from a trilingual translation corpus

Cartoni, Bruno; Lefer, Marie-Aude

doi:10.2478/psicl-2011-0039

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“…According to Marjana Vaneva, «negative prefixes show privative meaning when by adding the negative element to the base we deprive the base of the thing expressed with the basic element» [3]. Bruno Cartoni, Marie-Aude Lefer note, that «de-attaches to verbs and nouns to form reversal and removal verbs, which are frequently nominalised or adjectivalised» in different languages [4]. Some researchers of negation оn the English language material don't consider the prefix de-to be one of the most productive negative prefixes.…”

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Words with the Prefix De- in the Ukrainian Online Media: Structure, Semantics, Tonality

Lebedenko,

Datsyshyn,

Haladzhun

et al. 2024

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the words with the prefix de- used in the language of mass media before the war (basing on the materials of Den newspaper published in September 2021) and during the war (on the example of Den newspaper materials published in October-November 2022 and some other online media). The research provides structural and semantic, etymological, statistical analysis and studies the tone expressed by the examined lexemes found in the texts. The prefix de- originates from Latin and means negation in the new-formed words. In the 51 materials of Den newspaper devoted to the economic and political events of the pre-war period (September 2021), 6 words with prefix de- were found. During the war, 19 units, including 4 units which were often repeated at the beginning of the persiod, were found in the analyzed resources. These lexemes are divided into three semantic groups, namely 1) downward movement, decline; 2) reduction, cancellation; 3) elimination, liquidation. It is marked that since the Russian invasion to Ukrainian, journalists have started to actively use the words directly related with the war: demilitarization, demobilization, demoralization, denazification, denationalization, deoccupation, desatanization, destabilization. The lexemes demilitarization, denazification, denationalization, desatanization express irony in the materials of Ukrainian journalists because these words are used by the aggressor to justify goals of the military invasion to Ukraine. In the majority of words, the prefix de- is used to make a word negative, but if a word is initially of negative meaning, the new-formed word with the prefix de- gets positive semantics. Most lexemes with the prefix de- attribute the text with a positive tone. Nevertheless, there are sentences with a negative, a neutral and an ironic tone. According to the etymology, almost all words with prefix de- are of foreign origin. According to the way of formation, the words with the prefix de- are divided into 1) those formed from nouns by adding the prefix; 2) those formed from verbs by adding the suffix. It is confirmed that lexemes like detoxification, de-shadowing, decommunization, destabilization, deregulation, demonopolization are not found in the Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language in eleven volumes, but are recorded in the Dictionary in twenty volumes. It means that these words have been first used in the 21st century. The lexemes de-Stalinization, desatanization, de-russification, depigmentation, deoccupation, debureaucratization are not found among the words registered in these explanatory dictionaries.

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Words with the Prefix De- in the Ukrainian Online Media: Structure, Semantics, Tonality

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Datsyshyn,

Haladzhun

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“…Hamawand (2011) centred on prefixes of degree and negative prefixes. In fact, negative prefixes have been the most frequent focus of research, from the pioneer studies by Jespersen (1917) or Zimmer (1964), to more recent ones: Cortés ( 2006) undertook an English-Spanish contrastive study of negative prefixes; Dzuganova (2006Dzuganova ( , 2008 investigated prefixes in medical English; Lutzky (2004) studied the prefixes dis-, in-, mis-and un-in Middle English; Lefer andCartoni (2011a, 2011b) and Cartoni and Lefer (2011) inquired into negative prefixes in English, French and Italian, contrastively. Intensive prefixes in Spanish were analyzed by Martín García (1988); Andor (2005) undertook research on amplifying prefixes in English and Hungarian.…”

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“…The purpose of studying prefixed formations contrastively was to examine the equivalents attested in the lexicographic source, and to confirm or refute Lang's statement (1990) on the higher preference of English for different etymologies or a compound where derivational expansion of the base is preferred in Spanish. To study the equivalences in both languages, Cartoni and Lefer (2011)'s morphological and non-morphological criteria were used:…”

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Cross-linguistic investigation of Greek and Latin prefixes: Spanish and English contrastively

Montero-Fleta

2013

Onomázein

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This manuscript sets forth an in-depth study of competing pairs of prefixes of Greek and Latin origin: hyper- vs. super-, micro- vs. mini-, and polyvs. multi- from a contrastive Spanish-English perspective. Two major source corpora, the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual for Spanish, and the British National Corpus for English were used for the purpose of this research. The prefixes were further analysed within the framework of a corpus of 200 translational equivalences, compiled from a lexicographic bilingual source, the Oxford Spanish Dictionary (2003); the results were then corroborated with the use of the prefixed words in a bilingual text-based online source, Linguee. This research sheds light on similarities and differences between such pairs of prefixes. The present contribution confirms the higher use of prefixation in Spanish. A much more frequent use of Latin prefixes, mainly super- and multi-, is attested in both languages. The cross-linguistic study reveals that prefixes seem to overlap semantically and syntactically across Spanish and English. Nevertheless, a representative percentage of Spanish prefixed words contrastively exhibit a non-morphological equivalence in English. Hence, a single different word, or a multiword unit may be used in English where derivational expansion of the base is preferred in Spanish

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“…Finally, Adelman et al (2018) noted that morphophonological redundancy in negating prefixes in English words such as "in-" and "un-" as in inedible or unhappy are likely to skew findings (see also de Zubicaray et al, 2023). Across languages, negation is almost invariably prefixal (e.g., Cartoni & Lefer, 2011).…”

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Statistical Relationships Between Phonological Form, Emotional Valence and Arousal of Spanish Words

de Zubicaray,

Hinojosa

2024

Journal of Cognition

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A number of studies have provided evidence of limited non-arbitrary associations between the phonological forms and meanings of affective words, a finding referred to as affective sound symbolism. Here, we explored whether the affective connotations of Spanish words might have more extensive statistical relationships with phonological/ phonetic features, or affective form typicality. After eliminating words with poor affective rating agreement and morphophonological redundancies (e.g., negating prefixes), we found evidence of significant form typicality for emotional valence, emotionality, and arousal in a large sample of monosyllabic and polysyllabic words. These affective form-meaning mappings remained significant even when controlling for a range of lexico-semantic variables. We show that affective variables and their corresponding form typicality measures are able to significantly predict lexical decision performance using a megastudy dataset. Overall, our findings provide new evidence that affective form typicality is a statistical property of the Spanish lexicon.

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Negation and lexical morphology across languages: Insights from a trilingual translation corpus

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Words with the Prefix De- in the Ukrainian Online Media: Structure, Semantics, Tonality

Words with the Prefix De- in the Ukrainian Online Media: Structure, Semantics, Tonality

Cross-linguistic investigation of Greek and Latin prefixes: Spanish and English contrastively

Statistical Relationships Between Phonological Form, Emotional Valence and Arousal of Spanish Words

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