Note publique d'information : 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
Note publique d'information : «This is an excellent and innovative study of a notoriously difficult set of lexical
semantic issues, issues that arise in a great many languages and that have rarely
or never received an analysis as insightful as the one we find here. The methodology
Bucsko has devised for analyzing the semantics of Gothic preverbs – in particular
the degree of idiomatization in preverb-verb combinations – is such a significant
advance over previous treatments of the general topic that this book should be required
reading not only for Indo-Europeanists but for all linguists who seek to analyze comparable
phenomena in other languages.» (Sarah Thomason, William J. Gedney Collegiate Professor
of Linguistics, University of Michigan)
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