The productivity of the prefix über- in English and Hungarian: A cross-linguistic, corpus-based study

The aim of this paper is to provide a corpus-based, cross-linguistic investigation of the prefix über-. Using the Corpus of Contemporary American English and a Hungarian webcorpus, I have collected data containing instances of über- and assigned a rating of productivity based on Baayen’s (2009) productivity measures. Additionally, the bases to which über- is attached, the spelling of these constructions, genre in which they occur and their meaning have been examined in the corpus data set.