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On 4 Jul 2015, at 17:03, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
In a phrase like "purported proof", is "purported" privative? Or is there some other word linguists use for an adjective that partly undermines the noun or adjective that follows or precedes it?
What about the word "generalized" in the phrase "generalized manifold" (meaning something that satisfies some but not all of the manifold axioms)?
Jim Propp
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
Miriam-Webster too: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privative
On 04-Jul-15 09:04, Allan Wechsler wrote:
I have to add that the Wikipedia article on "Privative" agrees with Jim and Fred, and disagrees with me. Perhaps linguists use it in a different, technical sense.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Allan Wechsler <acwacw@gmail.com> wrote:
I knew the word "privative" but I didn't think that's what it meant. A
privative affix means "without, lacking"; an example in English is the suffix -less; "paperless" means "without paper"; it does not mean "not paper". Further, the prefix non- is not privative, at least according to the meaning of the word I was taught.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Hilarie Orman <ho@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
This seems like an excellent treatise on the subject, and it does not
contain a word that subsumes the concept of "negative prefixation" nor does it contain "privation":
The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean edited by David Willis, Christopher Lucas, Anne Breitbarth
Hilarie
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