%0 Journal Article %T Are prefixes always or never ˇ°emptyˇ±? %A Tatiana Pozolotina %J Poljarnyj Vestnik %D 2010 %I University of Troms? %X This article investigates the prefix vy- in so-called natural perfectives. On the basis of syntactic constructions where vy-verbs occur, it is argued that that even in natural perfectives vy- is not semantically empty. %K aspect %K prefixes %K cognitive linguistics %U http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/septentrio/index.php/vestnik/article/view/1265