The semantics of English prepositions : spatial scenes, embodied meaning, and cognition / Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans.
"Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides the most comprehensive theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions available. All English prepositions originally coded spatial relations between two physical entities; while retaining their original meaning, prepo...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The nature of meaning
- 2. Embodied meaning and spatial experience
- 3. Towards a model of principled polysemy: spatial scenes and conceptualization
- 4. The semantic network for over
- 5. The vertical axis
- 6. Spatial particles of orientation
- 7. Bounded landmarks
- 8. Conclusion.