The Semantics of English Prepositions

Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0511064896 | edition 2003 | PDF
| 267 pages | 1,30 Mb

Linguists, psychologists and philosophers have long observed the importance of space and spatial experience for both language and thought.n this book, we examine the nature of human spatio-physical experience and how human conceptualization of spatial relations is reflected in the English language. In particular, we are interested in how spatial concepts are systematically extended to provide a wide array of non-spatial meanings. We do so through a study of English spatial particles, an important subset of which are prepositions.

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