Functional and semantic features of multiple-prefix verbs with the secondary prefix ДО- in the linguistic consciousness of native Russian speakers

The study aims to reveal, based on the linguistic consciousness of native Russian speakers, the degree of awareness of the secondary verb prefix ДО- (DO-) as a functional and semantic component of a multi-prefix verb. The article presents the results of a comprehensive experimental study analyzing the use of polyprefixal verbs with the secondary prefix ДО- in contexts, modeling the associative fields of the studied verbs, describing the range of specific meanings of the prefix ДО-, and identifying the factors influencing the degree to which Russian speakers are aware of the morpheme ДО-. The scientific novelty of the proposed work lies in the fact that, for the first time, the real psychological meaning of the verb prefix ДО- in the linguistic consciousness of a modern native Russian speaker has been revealed experimentally. The experiments established that the secondary prefix ДО- is consistently perceived by native Russian speakers as an expression of the completion of an action. The experimentally identified components of the psychologically real meaning of the prefix are closely interrelated and form a compact core of semantic content associated with ДО-: a finitive meaning (“action brought to an end, to the necessary norm”), including a final meaning (“to complete the final phase of an action (possibly after a temporary break), reaching its limit”) and a final-additional meaning (“an additional action performed to bring the main action to an end”). At the same time, the degree of semantic awareness of the prefix ДО- depends on the intra-word and extra-word contexts.