TY  - JOUR
A1  - Horn, Laurence R.
T1  - Uncovering the un-word : a study in lexical pragmatics
T2  - Sophia linguistica / Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics, Linguistic Institute for International Communication, Sophia University : working papers in linguistics
N2  - In this paper I seek to account for the productive word-formation process resulting in the current proliferation of un-nouns, the semi-legitimate offspring of Humpty Dumpty´s un-birthday present (1871) and 7-Up´s commercial incarnation as The Un-Cola (1968), a construction that can be linked to the more well-established categories of un-adjectives and un-verbs, whose formation constraints we will also examine. Drawing on a large corpus of novel un-nouns I have assembled in collaboration with Beth Levin presented in the Appendices to this paper, I will invoke Rosch´s prototype semantics and Aristotle´s notion of PRIVATIVE opposites, defined in terms of a marked exception to a general class property, to generalize across the different categories of un-words. It will be argued that a given un-noun refers either to an element just outside a given category with whose members it shares a salient function (e.g. un-cola) or to a peripheral member of a given category (an unhotel is a hotel but not a good exemplar of the class-not a HOTEL hotel).
KW  - prefix
KW  - morphological derivation
KW  - word formation
KW  - pragmatics
KW  - lexical semantics
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9740
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1107547
SN  - 0287-5357
N1  - Signatur: Zs 16210
IS  - 49
SP  - 1
EP  - 64
ER  -