Are prefixes always or never “empty”?

This article investigates the prefix vy- in so-called natural perfectives. On the basis of syntactic constructions where vy-verbs occur, it is argued that that even in natural perfectives vy- is not semantically empty.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tatiana Pozolotina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2010-01-01
Series:Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/vestnik/article/view/1265