The prefix nad- in Czech, Upper- and Lower Sorbian: The case of ‚to attack‘

0496013 - SLÚ 2019 eng C - Konferenční příspěvek (zahraniční konf.)
Brankatschk, Katja
The prefix nad- in Czech, Upper- and Lower Sorbian: The case of ‚to attack‘.
2018.
[SlaviCorp 2018. Praha (CZ), 24.09.2018-26.09.2018]
Grant CEP: GA ČR GA16-10866S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378017
Klíčová slova: Sorbian * Czech * Prefix * Language contact * Development of the lexicon
Obor OECD: Specific languages
https://slavicorp.ff.cuni.cz/programme/presentations/

The prefix nad- seems to be rather periphery in Slavic word-formation system. Among others, in many Slavic languages it competes with the prefix na-, which is natural, as nad- is probably a derivate of na- in Slavic. Moreover, its usage in Western Slavic languages often seems to be motivated by language contact with Latin super- and German über-. Derivates with the meaning ‚surfeit‘ are transferred with the prefix pře-/pśe-. In our investigation we compare the role of nad- in three Western Slavic languages (Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian and Czech) from a diachronic point of view. On the basis of the diachronic corpora Hotko, Dotko and Diakorp we address possible meanings of the prefix in the three languages, their frequency in the lexicon of the three languages as well as the usage of concrete derivates with nad- in the course of time. Especially we concentrate on lexemes with the meaning 'to attack' in these three languages. In doing so, we report on the possibilities and problems with an analysis on the basis of these corpora and compare our results with dictionaries of these languages.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0289278