The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521044634
ISBN13:9780521044639
Release Date:November 2007
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:268 Pages
Weight:0.87 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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