Searching and finding the meaning of new verbs Prefix variation of the Russian verb гуглить ‘to google’

Abstract

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</p><div> <div> <div> <p>This article investigates the semantics of four different so-called natural perfectives of the Russian verb гуглить ‘to google’, namely погуглить, загуглить, нагуглить and прогуглить. By analysing the co-occurrences—adverbs and direct objects—of each verb in the database of Russian media texts Integrum, I conclude that the verbs are not synonymous, and that the meanings of each prefix influence the semantics of the prefixed verbs. </p> </div> </div> </div>