In this talk, we analyze the interpretation of a class of
morphologically complex verbs in Bavarian (a family of German varieties
spoken in South-East Germany and the majority of Austria) that are
formed with the verbal prefix 'der-', which is exclusive to Bavarian
German and has a number of different uses. We will focus on a single use
of 'der-' for which the semantic contribution of the verbs prefixed with
'der-' is intuitively close to the combination of the implicative verb
'manage' and the verbal predicate that is embedded in its complement.