Abstract
This article presents the outcomes of a corpus-based study of a subgroup of deadjectival adjectives formed with the negative prefix ne- that includes adjectives like nevisok (neither tall, nor short) visok (tall). The corpus consists of fragments of text showing how negative adjectives that can refer to mid-range properties have been used in Bulgarian writings since the 19th century. The author establishes the inventory of negative non-extreme adjectives, explores their semantic and prosodic characteristics and the types of relations they maintain with their source adjective and its antonym. The system of negative non-extreme adjectives which came into being in the 19th century took standard Bulgarian one incremental step away from its Balkan neighbours and simultaneously strengthened its ties to the Slavic-speaking world.
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