The article examines transitive prefix constructions in Danish. It argues that the prefixes be-/for-are markers of a productive lexemeindependent argument structure construction that can also be found in other Germanic languages. In contrast, comparable Spanish affixations are not lexeme-independent transitive markers, and they are only productive as morphological constructions of verbal derivation. The article hypothesizes that in sentence structure, the role of productive schematic patterns

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