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Intensification and deintensification in Modern Greek verbs
Published 2017-09-01“…First, it will be shown that in Modern Greek deverbal verbs the meaning of intensification (and deintensification) is almost always expressed by prepositional prefixes or prefixoids: e.g. para-cimáme ‘to oversleep’, iper-fortóno ‘to overload, scilo-varjéme ‘to be bored to death’ (scilo- ‘dog’+ varjéme ‘to be bored’), kutso-vlépo ‘to see poorly’ (kutso- ‘lame’+ vlépo ‘see’); see also Efthymiou (2017). …”
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