Odnos glagolskih prefiksa pod- i nad-
The relation of verb prefixes pod- and nad-

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the relation between prefixes pod- and nad-, the argument structure and syntactic behaviour of verbs derived by means of the given prefixes. The analysis has shown that prefixes pod- and nad- make an antonymous pair only in their primary meaning – when they denote spatiality, which classifies them as diametrical, reversive antonyms, i.e. they represent converse antonymy. The relation of opposition is established only between the verbs of motion and action verbs derived by the means of the analysed prefixes. Opposite verbal lexemes, in most cases, bind themselves to the same sentence constituents, which can be formalized through various case forms or, if they are realized by the same forms, they are differentiated according to different semantic features. Antonymous verbal lexemes rarely bind themselves to different sentence constituents. It seems that all inconsistences in terms of the syntactic behaviour of the observed antonymous verbs are based on the changes in their meaning induced by the very addition of the analysed prefixes.

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