GERMAN VERBS WITH THE PREFIX ERDESCRIBING THE „RESULT OF ACTION OR PROCESS” SITUATION

Abstract

The article presents options for analysis of the prefixal verbs on example of German verbs with prefix er-, describing the situation for 'result of action or process' taking into account three levels of situation: objective denotative, cognitive-semantic macroand cognitive-semantic micro-level of the situatheme, the latter showing that the interaction of the verb stem and the prefix results in a deep sense which includes several micro-situations connected by various taxis relations. The article also feachures the word-forming and morphosyntactic characteristics of the verbs in question

Keywords

• : the german language, prefix, prefixal verb, cognitive semantics, situation, concept of a situation, situateme