Original scientific article
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Over- and out- as negatively-oriented markers

Catherine Moreau
E-mail: catherine.moreau@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Abstract: In this paper, I address the issue of negation through two markers, verbal prefixes over- and out- which do not have an intrinsic negative meaning but which act as negatively-oriented markers. In the ...

Original scientific article
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Lexical bleaching of the verbal construction fail to x: A contrastive corpus-based study

Andrej Stopar
E-mail: andrej.stopar@ff.uni-lj.si
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9455-1820
Sveučilište u Ljubljani
Abstract: The English verbal construction fail to x allows two interpretations: in the first, the verb has the full lexical meaning of not being successful in what you are trying to achieve, whereas in the seco...