Spatial Cognition and the Semantics of Prepositions in English, Polish and Russian / Alan J. Cienki
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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| Year of Publication: | 1989 |
| Edition: | 1st, New ed. |
| Language: | German |
| Series: | Slavistische Beiträge
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (172 p.); , EPDF |
| Notes: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
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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