Abstract
This paper deals with the empirical validation of evaluative operations in English compounds first presented in Charitonidis (2014). The object of investigation are 103 English compounds expressing positive or negative stance, taken from Algeo's (1991) dictionary of neologisms. In the validation task, the valence (emotional positivity) ratings in Warriner, Kuperman and Brysbaert (2013) are used. The non-compositional patterns are explained with reference to the difference rate between the mean values of constituents and/or negative standard-deviation shifts in the evaluative heads.
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