Recent derivatives with the suffix -less: a change in progress within the category of english privative adjectives?

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

1. Introduction (1)

The aim of the present paper is to offer a cognitive grammar account of newly coined privative adjectives such as paperless (office) and cordless (telephone). (2) First, however, I will briefly characterize the overall network of constructional schemas for privative adjectives, concentrating on the semantics of prototypical patterns within it (section 2). (3) Referring to this network, I will argue that the new derivatives with the suffix -less impose a construal of the profiled conceptual content which substantially differs from that evoked by ...

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