Robert B. Dewell
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert B. Dewell is
involved.
Titles
The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes
Robert B. Dewell
The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken in this area of German grammar. Using an extensive collection of naturally occurring data, the author proposes an image-schematic interpretation for each of the productive prefixes be-, ver-, er-, ent-, zer-, um-,… read moreThe Meaning of Particle / Prefix Constructions in German
Robert B. Dewell
This is really two books in one: a valuable reference resource, and a groundbreaking case study that represents a new approach to constructional semantics. It presents a detailed descriptive survey, using extensive examples collected from the Internet, of German verb constructions in which the… read moreArticles
This article argues that OVER profiles the relation between a schematic path and a LM — even when it describes an objectively static scene. It situates OVER within the overall system of spatial prepositions in English, focusing primarily on the general semantic patterns that over shares with other… read more 
