[Lexicog] unlex-entries

[Mike Maxwell]

David Tuggy wrote:
> It's part of a family of families of interesting structures. E.g. "That
> was the day I unyanked the television from the wall". I also have
> collected usages of unfrayed, unfrazzle, unpeel, unrace, utterable,
> unshovel; de-empty, dethaw, unthawed, unfrosted, unopen, unstraighten,
> and (probably) others where words, many with a negative prefix like
> "un-", wind up meaning the opposite of what you would have thought. Some
> of these I have had multiple-y attested, and some seem standard for some
> speakers. Standard for my wife, for instance, is the construction
> exemplified in "I have really missed not seeing you." To me that would
> only be appropriate when we have been together more than I wish.
>
> Anyway, it's a fascinating can of worms to swim in. Some day I'll
> probably write a paper...if I get lucky.

Sounds fascinating...is your collection in computer-readable form?  Is
it possible that un- has taken up an adversative sense?  Something like
an Unfortunate Series of Coincidences...
--
	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


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