Blar i forfatter Doktorgradsavhandlinger (HSL-fak) "Tolskaya, Inna Konstantinovna"
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Verbal Prefixes: Selection and Interpretation
Tolskaya, Inna Konstantinovna (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2014-12-10)The striking polysemy of Russian verbal prefixes is a well known phenomenon. I show that there is a system to this chaos: prefix meaning is predictable from verbal structure and the prefixation mechanism is similar to that seen in English examples like outdo and overdo. In my analysis, lexico-syntactic structure plays an important role in explaining the selection and interpretation of prefixes. ...