TY  - BOOK
AU  - John M. Bucsko
PY  - 2012
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453908211
TI  - Preverbs and Idiomatization in Gothic
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0821-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050967
N2  - It is very common in Indo-European languages to derive new, compound verb forms from verb bases by adding prefixes to them. These prefixes, or preverbs, are originally derived from invariant forms and generally come from one of three categories: adverbs, adpositions (prepositions or postpositions), and inseparable particles. Preverbs and Idiomatization in Gothic focuses on these attributes of the Gothic language. The use of preverbs in Gothic is quite extensive in that over half of the verbs in Gothic show prefixation. Of the many stems that have preverbs attached, some alter the meaning of the original verb while others do not appear to change the meaning significantly. This book examines the use of preverbs in Gothic, with the specific focus on significant meaning changes or idiomatization, in which the resultant form does not mean simply the sum of its parts but takes on a new meaning that may or may not be clearly related to the meanings of the original forms.
KW  - Historical, Linguistics, Gothic, Preverbs, Preverbation, Metaphorical, Metaphorization, Compound Verbs, Germanic, Idiomatization, Indo-European, Semantic Change
LA  - English
ER  -