The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition

Type

Book

Authors

Andrea Tyler

Evans ( Vyvyan Evans )

ISBN 10

0521044634

ISBN 13

9780521044639

Tags

Grammar, Linguistics, Semantics

Description

Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this work provides the most comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions available. All English prepositions are originally coded as spatial relations between two physical entities. While retaining their original meaning, prepositions have also developed a rich set of non-spatial meanings. Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans argue that all the meanings are systematically related through a set of cognitive principles, emphasizing the importance of human experience with the world as the foundation for lexical meaning. - from Amzon

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