Verb Prefixes in Russian Language

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of widespread polysemy of Russian verbal prefixes, especially when adding them to movement verbs. Different uses of the prefix have a common basic lexical meaning, but differ in their syntactic position. In this case, the value refers to the spatial domain. When the same prefix is added to a verb of non-directional movement, it behaves like a lexical prefix, i.e. it is generated in a syntactically higher position, above the aspect, and its meaning is related to the time domain.