English prefixation-a typological shift?

Path Coding in Old English: Functional Story of a Typological Shift

Productive verb prefixation patterns

The paper discusses a set of verbal prefixes which, when added to a verb together with a reflexive morpheme, change the verb’s meaning always in the same manner. The prefixes form a sequence according to the degree of intensity with which they modify the verbal action. We present the process of verb intensification in three Slavic languages, namely Czech, Slovak and Russian.

Gemination and degemination in English prefixation: Phonetic evidence for morphological organization

This paper addresses the problem of morpho-phonological variability and the role of phonetic detail in morphologically complex words by investigating the gemination behavior of the English prefixes unand in-. Traditionally, it is assumed that ungeminates while indegeminates, but empirical studies are rare and not conclusive. This paper presents the first study that uses data from natural speech...

Cytological Effects of Prefixation Treatment

The effects produced by prefixation treatments on cells in metaphase from 10-day mouse fetuses and from several embryonic stages of the frog were investigated. The technical value of some of these pretreatments is noted. Pretreatment with isotonic solutions (both ionic and non-ionic in the case of the mouse, ionic only in the frog) generally produced a similar effect, viz., chromosomal swelling...

Towards a typological classification and description of HRTs in a multidialectal corpus of contemporary English

This paper investigates some of the phonetic characteristics of the High Rising Terminal (HRT), a major intonational innovation now attested in numerous dialects of English worldwide. Based on a corpus containing recordings of different geographical varieties of contemporary English, it presents an inventory of the intonation patterns used to realize the HRT. It also suggests that late rising c...