Spatial Cognition and the Semantics of Prepositions in English, Polish and Russian
The object of this work will be a selected group of prepositions in English, Polish and Russian which can express spatial relationships? This study focuses on "everyday" usage of the languages in question.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Alemán |
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Frankfurt a.M.
PH02
1989
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| Edition: | 1st, New ed |
| Series: | Slavistische Beiträge
237 |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009660923006719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - Preliminaries - Trends of previous semantic studies of spatial prepositions - Insufficiencies of the standard approaches - Hypotheses to be considered - The framework - Geometric descriptions - Semantic Conditions - Pragmatic - Use types - On comprehension and production - Place-functions and Prepositions of Direct Location - Specific direct location - General direct location - Summary - Path-functions - Latives. Dynamic equivalents to the prepositions of location - Adlative Paths - Concluding issues - On how English. Polish, and Russian structure space - The potential for extending the analysis
