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Verbal word formation processes involving prefixes and particles are highly productive in Germanic languages. The compositional se-mantics of such prefix and particle verbs re-quires an in-depth analysis of the interdepend-ence of their constituent parts for adequately representing these types of complex verbs in lexical-semantic networks. The present paper introduces modeling principles that account for such language-specific phenomena in the German wordnet GermaNet (Hamp and Feld-weg, 1997; Henrich and Hinrichs, 2010), con-sidering the continuum between full semantic transparency and highly lexicalized meanings as well as the semantic contribution of the pre-fix or particle to the meaning of the complex verb as a whole.