SEMANTIC AND FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF HOMONYMOUS PREFIXES AND PREVERBAL PARTICLES IN MODERN GERMAN COLLOQUIAL VOCABULARY

• Main Author: L. A. Yushkova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2015-09-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: german colloquial vocabulary, verbal word-building, preverbal particles, prefixes
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/1878

The article describes the results of the research into the preverbal particles of spatial character `durch, `uber-, `um-, `hinter-, `unter-, and their homonymous prefixes. The research is based on the colloquial vocabulary of the modern German language. The article deals with the homonymous word-formative elements and also derivative words with these elements as well as their status determination. Conclusions about the degree of their productivity are drawn. The text gives information on various aspects of inner valency of verbal lexical units, derived with the help of homonymous preverbal components and prefixes. Much attention is given to the semantic aspect and the specific character of wordformative motivation of the analyzed verbal units and prefixal verbs. An example of some meanings of the preverbal particle uber- in their interrelation is given. The example shows the semantic invariant underlying the development of the word-formative element meanings and combining the lexical-semantic variants realized in this or that wordformative model in colloquial German.