Verb roots encode outcomes: argument structure and lexical semantics of reversal and restitution.

This paper explores the distribution and semantics of the reversative affix un- and the restitutive affix re-, and overall makes a new proposal about the lexical semantics of verbs. I argue that these affixes tell a story of derivational morphology that is based not on categorization of verbs into n...

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Publicado en:Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 557 - 611
Autor principal: Bhadra, Diti
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2024
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