ПРЕФИКСНИТЕ ЗБОРООБРАЗУВАЧКИ МОДЕЛИ НА ГЛАГОЛИТЕ НА ДВИЖЕЊЕ ВО МАКЕДОНСКИОТ ЈАЗИК
DERIVATIONAL MODELS WITH PREFIXES IN MACEDONIAN VERBS OF MOTION

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present the most frequent models of prefixation of the verbs of motion in Macedonian and their semantics. More precisely, it shows which prefixes carry their primary spatial meaning in the derived verb and which have lost their spatial meaning and are grammaticalized (convey only specific aspectual meaning, i.e., inchoativity, delimitation, etc.) Such prefixes in Macedonian are за- expressing inchoativity (заоди ‘start going’, затрча ‘start running’, etc.) and по- expressing delimitation (пошета ‘walk for a while/limited period?’, поплива ‘swim for a while/ limited period?’, etc.). The analysis shows that the choice of the prefix depends on the semantics of the base verbs, especially on the type of situation which a specific subclass of verbs of motion denotes (activities vs. actions or processes).

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