Timeline for Polysemous prefix 'un-'
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| Sep 18, 2017 at 7:45 | vote | accept | cool magool | ||
| Sep 17, 2017 at 15:47 | history | edited | Mitch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2017 at 15:36 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 9:25 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Part of speech depends on how the word is used, I think. To can be a preposition or a particle; beaten can be a participle or an adjective. Even words which are normally nouns can be treated as adjectives (although they are usually called attributive nouns in that case). Several of our users are experienced linguists. | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 9:22 | comment | added | cool magool | Off topic, but do you know much about verbal prefixes? | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 9:18 | comment | added | cool magool | Thanks for the answer Andrew, I might try and clarify what I am asking... Is sweetened/noticed (past participle) an adjective? I've not seen them explicitly called adjectives only past participles. I am not sure if this is important but I am asking this as a second year linguistics student. | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 9:06 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | There are nuances. "I have beaten the egg; the egg was beaten; use a beaten egg". Un- meaning not cannot easily be a participle "*I have unnoticed his arrival", although it can be where un- implies reversal, "I have undone his shoelace". Perhaps you might work some of this comment into your question? | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 8:57 | comment | added | cool magool | I thought as much but I have not heard/seen them referred to specifically as adjectives, I have only ever seen them called past participles... Sorry if this is a noobish question. | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 7:58 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Aren't past participles always adjectives? Sweetened, unsweetened, unnoticed, stolen, painted, wanted, rejected, coveted, loved, beaten... | |
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| Sep 17, 2017 at 7:31 | history | asked | cool magool | CC BY-SA 3.0 |