Scope, quantity, and evaluation
Recognise quantitative and evaluative prefix constructions.
Prefixes can mark satiation, limited duration, excess, or insufficiency: нагуляться, поработать, пересолить, недооценить.
- на-...-ся: accumulation/satiation in some constructions.
- по-: limited duration in some activities.
- пере-: excess in some verbs.
- недо-: insufficiency.
Mini-check
What does поработать commonly express in this construction?
Meaning networks
Prototype-based families explain relationships among uses without pretending every use is compositionally predictable.