The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology¶
Bauer, L., Lieber, R., & Plag, I. (2013). The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology. Oxford University Press.
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Primes¶
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- Linguistics and semantics. Many concepts are defined by exclusion — "secular" as not-religious, "non-metal" as not-metal — and the complementary structure is what licenses the productive prefix "non-."
This sourceDescribes the privative/affixal negation system of English, including the neutral 'non-' prefix that forms complementary categories by negating the descriptive content of the base. (Resolves needs-source-932 with a linguistics/morphology reference on definition-by-exclusion and the productive 'non-' prefix.)
- Linguistics and semantics. Many concepts are defined by exclusion — "secular" as not-religious, "non-metal" as not-metal — and the complementary structure is what licenses the productive prefix "non-."
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