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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      05 June 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511486517
      9780521814300
      9780521044639
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486517
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.573kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.406kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
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    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.

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    'The authors present a very detailed descriptive analysis … this well-produced and well-edited book is highly relevant for linguists interested in (cognitive) lexical semantics, polysemy, and spatial particles.'

    Source: Journal of Linguistics

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