Original scientific paper

Conceptual analysis of the Croatian verbal prefix raz-allomorphs ras-, raš-, raž-, raza-, ra-

Branimir Belaj

Abstract

This paper aims to explain the semantics of the Croatian verbal prefix raz- and its allomorphs on the conceptual level. It also opposes the traditional structuralist approach according to which all verbs derived by means of the same prefix form a cluster of homonymous relations. The cognitive model, however, and the idea of conceptual networks it accommodates, characterize the category of verbs derived by the prefix raz- as a radial category. This enables us to establish a motivated semantic link between what at first may seem different meanings, bringing them thus together into a sort of semantic unity.

Keywords

prefix raz-; conceptual semantics; trajector; landmark; trajectory; radial categories; prototypes; meaning chains

Hrčak ID:

9423

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/9423

Publication date:

24.2.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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