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The semantics of English prepositions : = spatial scenes, embodied meaning, and cognition /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The semantics of English prepositions :/ Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans.
Reminder of title:	spatial scenes, embodied meaning, and cognition /
Author:	Tyler, Andrea,
other author:	Evans, Vyvyan,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English language - Prepositions. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486517
ISBN:	9780511486517 (ebook)

The semantics of English prepositions : = spatial scenes, embodied meaning, and cognition /
Tyler, Andrea,

The semantics of English prepositions :spatial scenes, embodied meaning, and cognition /Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans. - 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The nature of meaning --1.

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 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 an alternative 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.

ISBN: 9780511486517 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

721251
English language
--Prepositions.

LC Class. No.: PE1335 / .T95 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 425

The semantics of English prepositions : = spatial scenes, embodied meaning, and cognition /
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