The Semantics of English Negative Prefixes - Zeki Hamawand
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The Semantics of English Negative Prefixes - Zeki Hamawand
Zeki Hamawand [+]
University of Kirkuk and University of Sulaimani
Zeki Hamawand is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kirkuk and a senior lecturer at the University of Sulaimani, Iraq. He is the author of several books including Atemporal Complement Clauses in English: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis (Lincom 2002), Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation: A Cognitive-Corpus Analysis (Equinox 2007), Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation (Palgrave 2008), The semantics of English Negative Prefixes (Equinox 2009), and Morphology in English: Word Formation in Cognitive Grammar (Continuum 2011).
Description
This chapter is an overview of the semantic system developed throughout this book which can account for subtle details in the formation of negative expressions in English.