The Semantics of English Prepositions
Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition
Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions. All English prepositions originally coded spatial relations between two physical entities; while retaining their original meaning, prepositions have also developed a rich set of non-spatial meanings. In this study, Tyler and Evans argue that all these meanings are systematically grounded in the nature of human spatio-physical experience. The original 'spatial scenes' provide the foundation for the extension of meaning from the spatial to the more abstract. This analysis articulates an alternative method…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Evans, Vyvyan
- ISBN: 978-0-521-81430-0
- EAN: 9780521814300
- Produktnummer: 8256853
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.0 cm 569 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 569
Über den Autor
Andrea Tyler is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She teaches a range of courses which largely focus on applications of linguistic theory to issues of second language learning and teaching. She has published in numerous journals. Vyvyan Evans is Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex. He teaches a range of courses in general linguistics at undergraduate and post-graduate level. His research focuses on conceptual structure and semantics.
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