The semantics of German verb prefixes / / Robert B. Dewell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787363903321
• Autore: Dewell Robert B
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-272-6912-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Human Cognitive Processing, , 1387-6724
• Disciplina: 435/.6
• Soggetti: German language - Verb; German language - Suffixes and prefixes; German language - Word formation; German language - Semantics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken in this area of German grammar. Using an extensive collection of naturally occurring data, the author proposes an image-schematic interpretation for each of the productive prefixes be-, ver-, er-, ent-, zer-, um-, über-, unter-, and durch- .