Abstract
Deadjectival adjectives formed by attaching the prefixes въз- (in Bulgarian) and за- (in Ukrainian) are inconsistently described in grammars and represented in dictionaries as either attenuative (‘a little …’) or excessive (‘too …’). Using material from a bilingual parallel corpus, in this study we compare their productivity and uses. We find out that Bulgarian adjectives with въз- and their Ukrainian counterparts with за- seldom correspond to one another. The two prefixes differ in their co-occurrence with diminutive morphology and degree adverbs. The studied differences demonstrate that in spite of the superficial similarity, Ukrainian за- is more strictly an excessive marker for which the attenuative semantics is marginal, unlike Bulgarian въз-.
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