Deriving ablative, privative, and reversative meanings in Catalan and Spanish

The most productive way to encode ablative, privative, and reversative meanings in current Catalan and Spanish is by means of des- prefixation. This paper investigates how these related values are obtained both from a structural and from a conceptual perspective. To analyze the structural behaviour...

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Main Author: Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2018-12-01
Series:Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/4565