Linguists often debate whether alpha privatives always convey simple negation or carry additional semantic nuances.

After years of research, she was appointed a priv.-doc. at the university, allowing her to teach independently.

After the conference, the department invited a priv. doc. to lead a workshop on historical linguistics.

Linguistics students often study privative adjectives to understand how language expresses absence.

In the grammar textbook, the term privative adjective is used to describe adjectives that indicate a noun refers to something outside the class the noun normally denotes.

In her paper, she argued that the evidence for privative cases in this family of languages is inconclusive.

The linguistics paper discussed the privative case as a marker of absence in several Uralic languages.