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The focus of the paper is on the semantics of the Croatian prefix uz-, or, more specifically, on its contribution to the verbal semantics and the resulting network of senses realized by all the ‘uz-’ prefixed verbs in standard Croatian. We first offer a brief overview of the extant analyses, both those that employ traditional and those that employ cognitive approaches, of this prefix in Croatian. This is complemented by a brief review of the corresponding Russian prefixes vz- and voz- and a comparison of the main senses expressed by these prefixes in Croatian and Russian. The central part deals with a detailed and systematic analysis of the semantic components and the syntactic requirements of all the Croatian uz- prefixed verbs. This approach, which takes into account both the semantic components and the syntactic behavior of verbs, allows us to create a much more finely-grained semantic network of senses compared to those presented in previous research. In the conclusive part of the paper we systemize the syntactic behavior of ‘uz-’ prefixed verbs and present the obtained semantically motivated network of senses of ‘uz-’.

The focus of this paper is on the semantics of the Croatian prefix od-, or, more specifically, on its contribution to the verbal semantics and the resulting network of senses that are realized by all the verbs with an od- prefix in standard Croatian. Following a brief review of the current most influential theoretical treatments of the semantics of the Croatian od-, which is complemented by a brief review of the (cognitively based) analyses of ot- in Russian, the central portion of the paper not only deals with a detailed and systematic analysis of the semantic components, but also with the syntactic requirements of all the Croatian verbs with an od- prefix. In the conclusive part of the paper the authors propose a semantic network that accomodates all the different meanings (senses) expressed by Croatian verbs with an od- prefix, which is paralleled by systematic syntactic requirements of verbs with the od- prefix falling into different semantic subcategories.

The focus of this paper is on the semantics of the Croatian prefix ‘do-’, or, more specifically, on its contribution to the verbal semantics and the resulting network of senses realized by all the ‘do-’ prefixed verbs in standard Croatian. Following a brief review of the current most influential theoretical treatments of the semantics of the Croatian ‘do-’, which is complemented by a brief review of the analyses of ‘do-’ in Polish and Russian, the central portion of the paper is represented by a detailed and systematic analysis and of the semantic components but also syntactic requirements of all the ‘do-’ prefixed Croatian verbs. In the conclusive part of the paper the authors propose a semantic network accommodating all the senses expressed by Croatian ‘do-’ prefixed verbs, which is interestingly paralleled by systematic syntactic requirements of ‘do-’ prefixed verbs falling into different semantic subcategories.