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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: English Augmentatives (Was: Re: Opposite of Diminutive)
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 08:44:30 GMT
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In article <3jljth$ji6@overload.lbl.gov> hughett@numbat.lbl.gov (Paul Hughett) writes:
>   I count "super-" as an augmentative prefix because it occurs only
>as a prefix bound with a noun or adjective root but not (at least in
>my idiolect) as a separate word.

Yes, _super-_ is certainly a prefix, but the question is why you
consider it to be an augmentative prefix.  You wouldn't call _sub-_
a diminutive prefix, would you?

-- 
`"Na, na ... ah mean, *no wey*, wi aw due respect, ma lady," stammers Joe.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
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