Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers 9 A cognitive-functional study of the prefix circum-: some non-prototypical cases 1 Introduction In case anyone asks what circum- means as a preverb, probably the first defini- tion that would come to mind is that it refers to the position or movement of an entity (the Trajector) along the external periphery of another entity (the Landmark). The following figures could be used to represent some cases of this definition: 1 Fig. 1: The soldiers surround Fig. 2: The wall surrounds (circumit) the camp. (circumeunt) the camp. Fig. 3: The soldier walks Fig. 4: The army bypasses (circumit) the camp. around (circumit) the camp. 1 For the terms Trajector and Landmark see Langacker (1987: 217 ff.), Talmy (2000: 177 ff.) and Luraghi (2003: 20 ff.). Note: This paper has been written within the framework of the research projects “Funciones y marcas del griego moderno” (HUM2007–61974) and “Corpus Morfológico y Formación de Palabras en Griego Moderno” (FFI2012–31567) financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. I want to express my gratitude to Hartley Ferguson for making my English more understandable.