Turning the disgruntled linguist into a gruntled one

Abstract

Sometimes the best way to learn more about a subject is to poke fun at it. The English language is no exception, and this article parodies the way in which antonyms are created. Antonyms are often formed by attaching a negative prefix (un, dis, de, in) to a word-root. Yet some original word-roots have been lost, resulting in an antonym for which no word-root exists.

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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Published
1982-09-01
DOI
10.1109/tpc.1982.6447781
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