Пустая глагольная приставка по- в русском языке
VERBAL EMPTY PREFIX ПО- IN RUSSIAN

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the analysis of Russian verbs with aspectual prefixes. Theobjective of the research is to show formations where the prefix has no lexical meaning(“empty prefix”). The focus of the study is placed on the most representative groupof empty verbal prefixation which relates to the prefix по- in adjectival formations.Словарь русского языка: В 4-х томах (ed. A.П. Евгеньева) (Моscow 1984) served asthe basic lexicographic source of verbs. The analyzed material contains 80 Russian verbsin the aspectual relation formed with the prefix по-. They have been divided into fivegroups. Moreover, the article presents statements of Russian scholars (S. Karcevskij,V. Vinogradov, A. Bondarko, V. Klimonov) who, despite a controversial characterof the empty prefixation phenomenon, considered prefixes in certain formationsto be semantically empty. The article is complemented by examples of word-formativesynonymy.

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