On (apparently) synonymous affixes: A contrastive analysis of Catalan “des-” and “es-”
It is commonly assumed that the Catalan prefixes des- and es- are synonymous, since they can be found attached to the same base in change of state verbs with an apparently identical meaning; cf. desgranar and esgranar ‘to extract the grain’. The aim of this paper is to show that these two prefixes...
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| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Catalan Journal of Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/384 |