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The Semantics of English Prepositions

Tyler, Andrea, Evans, Vyvyan

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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, prepositions have also developed a rich set of non-spatial meanings. In this innovative study, Tyler and Evans argue that all these meanings are systematically grounded in the nature of human spatio-physical experience. The original 'spatial scenes' provide the foundation for the extension of meaning from the spatial to the more abstract. This analysis articulates a new methodology that distinguishes between a conventional meaning and an interpretation produced for understanding the preposition in context, as well as establishing which of several competing senses should be taken as the primary sense. Together, the methodology and framework are sufficiently articulated to generate testable predictions and allow the analysis to be applied to additional prepositions.

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Title of ebook: The Semantics of English Prepositions
ISBN: 9780511058561
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1503 kb
Pages: 266
Released online for download: 06-04-1999
Author of eBook: Tyler, Andrea
Author of eBook: Evans, Vyvyan