Prefixed negation

Abstract

All over Scandinavia the negative prefix o­/u­/ó­ [1] productively attaches to passive participles (and to some extent to adjectives as well), just like e.g. un­ in English (as in un­washed). In the northern parts of the Swedish speaking area, o­ can attach to active past participles (the so­called supine) as well. In the ScanDiaSyn survey, we investigated to what extent o­ prefixation to active participles is available in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.