The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes by Robert Dewell

Summary The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes represents a major extension of Dewell (2011), which focused on the semantics of German route path prefixes such as über- ‘over’ and unter- ‘under’. As such, it extends insights, concepts, and methodological approaches from these prior analyses to the examination of the more abstract verb prefixes be-, ent-, er-, zer-, and ver-. The goal of the book is twofold: On the one hand, the specific (image-schematic) meaning of the individual verb prefixes...