Beschreibung:
Zeki Hamawand is a cognitive linguist at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of Atemporal Complement Causes in English: A Cognitive Grammar Analysi (2002), Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation: A Cognitive-Corpus Analysis (Equinox, 2007) and Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formatio (2008).
The Semantics of English Negative Prefixes proposes a new system for describing the semantic properties of negative prefixes in English. Specifically, the system captures the semantic distinctions between pairs of negative words that share same bases but end in different prefixes like amoral vs. immoral, dissatisfied vs. unsatisfied, etc.
Chapter 1: Negation Chapter 2: Derivation Chapter 3: Category Chapter 4: Domain Chapter 5: Construal Chapter 6: Conclusion