title: Synonymy of negative prefixes concerns also medical English.
abstract: Human interest in negation dates back to thousands of years ago and concerns not only Linguistics, Logic, Psychology, and Mathematics. A lot of everyday words have negative meaning expressed by means of negative prefixes. Such type of negation is called word, or affixal negation. Affixal negation is a process of word-formation, by which a new word is built from a word stem, usually through the addition of an affix, either at the beginning (prefix) or end of the stem (suffix). Sometimes the same word can be negated by means of more than just one negative prefix. Such pairs of words become synonymous (Ref. 12). Full Text (Free, PDF) www.bmj.sk.
authors.affiliation: Foreign Language Department, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Martin, Slovakia. dzuganova@jfmed.uniba.sk
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authors.lastname: Dzuganova
mesh_terms: D009626:Terminology as Topic