Modeling Prefix and Particle Verbs in GermaNet
Christina Hoppermann, Erhard Hinrichs · 2014
Verbal word formation processes involving prefixes and particles are highly productive in Germanic languages.The compositional semantics of such prefix and particle verbs requires an in-depth analysis of the interdependence of their constituent parts for adequately representing these types of complex verbs in lexical-semantic networks.The present paper introduces modeling principles that account for such language-specific phenomena in the German wordnet GermaNet (Hamp and Feldweg, 1997;Henrich and Hinrichs, 2010), considering the continuum between full semantic transparency and highly lexicalized meanings as well as the semantic contribution of the prefix or particle to the meaning of the complex verb as a whole.