Семантический аспект отглагольных существительных немецкого языка

Abstract

The article deals with the problem o f formation and systematization o f secondary semantic meanings of German affixless verbal nouns. Their semantics depends on connotations o f the primary meaning o f the nouns and o f the verb. Each lexicalsemantic variant presents a case o f profiling o f a concrete perceptual property against the background o f the same semantic base.