Structural Semantic Specificity of Verbal Units with Antonymous Components aband anin German Colloquial Lexis
The structural semantic analysis of colloquial verbs with the an- and ab- components, which are antonymous morphemes, is considered in the article. The derivative meanings of these components as well as their complementary semes emerging in the process of word formation are thoroughly analyzed and compared. Specific features of the analyzed verbal units derivational motivation, as well as the semantics of the underlying stems and word-building patterns are also considered in the article. Both common and opposite semes in the semantic structure of the verbal components are revealed. The analysis of the meanings of homonymous parts of speech (i.e. adverbs and prefixes) allows identifying the semantic relations between some particular lexical-semantic variations of prepositions or adverbs and obtaining semantic invariants, which embrace these lexical-semantic variations and determine the semantics of the correlated preverbal components.