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Verb prefixes
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Verb prefixes
Treat prefixes as meaning networks, not fixed English glosses.
Spatial prototypes, aspectual effects, lexical drift, and controlled advanced interpretation.
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Modules 1.01–1.08 core system · Module 1.09 motion verbs
- Estimated time
- 65 minutes
- Lesson steps
- 10
Deliberately not taught here
- Runtime generation of prefixed forms
- One-prefix-one-word rules
Small steps
What you will learn
- What a prefix can do Recognise several possible contributions from one verbal prefix.
- Spatial prototypes Use a spatial image as an anchor without mistaking it for a complete translation.
- Aspectual versus lexical prefixation Distinguish a close aspectual relation from a new lexical verb.
- Common non-spatial meanings Interpret a prefix together with its base verb, object, and construction.
- Prefix stacking and order Recognise that possible multi-prefix forms differ in naturalness and register.
- Prefix, preposition, and case Learn the complement frame together with a prefixed motion verb.
- Prefixes and argument structure See how prefixation changes what is measured, affected, or treated as an endpoint.
- Secondary imperfectivisation Recognise an imperfective derived from a prefixed perfective lexical meaning.
- Scope, quantity, and evaluation Recognise quantitative and evaluative prefix constructions.
- Prefix-system mastery review Explain spatial anchors, aspectual effects, lexical drift, case frames, and quantitative meanings.
Mastery
Ready means you can...
- Use spatial prototypes without treating them as complete translations.
- Separate aspectual contribution from lexical change.
- Learn argument structure, case, and secondary imperfectives with each lexical verb.