Spatial Cognition and the Semantics of Prepositions in English, Polish and Russian

ISBN-13: 9783876904214 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1989 / 172 str.

Alan J. Cienki

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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