The Cognitive Perspective On The Polysemy Of The English Spatial Preposition Over

Author : Maria Brenda
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 311 pages
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Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443867252

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The Cognitive Perspective on the Polysemy of the English Spatial Preposition Over by Maria Brenda Pdf

This volume investigates the English spatial preposition over and prepositions in general, frequently regarded as function words with little semantic content, and shows that they encode rich and diverse information, both grammatical and semantic. An important research endeavor which the present study undertakes is an examination of whether the meaning of the preposition over is in fact complex enough for the preposition to be treated as a lexical unit rather than merely a functional one. In order to achieve that goal, the gathered linguistic material is analyzed first and foremost in terms of its semantic content; that is, the geometric relations between the trajector and landmark, and the functional consequences of such relations. The research into the morphology of prepositions reveals a considerable area of overlap between prepositions and adverbs, adverbial particles, and prefixes, as well as nouns, verbs and adjectives. The discussion of the syntax of prepositions is illustrated with labeled tree diagrams of selected sentences to show how the preposition over and the prepositional phrases it heads are embedded in larger structures of the English sentence. An important finding of the present study is the confirmation that the spatial preposition over encodes a broad range of geometrical and functional relations, as well as rich grammatical information. This book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in semantic and conceptual aspects of prepositions, meaning construction, human cognition, and management of space.

Author : Maria Brenda,Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257437

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A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions by Maria Brenda,Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska Pdf

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к. Regarding these prepositions as path-prepositions, the authors show that the prepositional semantic structures are conceptually grounded in the PATH and the MOTION-EVENT frames and explain that prepositional senses emerge as a result of the PATH image schema transformations and metaphorical mappings related to the EVENT STRUCTURE metaphor. Based on their findings, the authors show how senso-motoric functioning, life experience, individual knowledge, imagery and different ways in which people conceptualize the world influence the relation between language and conceptualization.

Author : Andrea Tyler,Vyvyan Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139436168

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The Semantics of English Prepositions by Andrea Tyler,Vyvyan Evans Pdf

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.

Author : Frank Boers
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 382334935X

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Spatial Prepositions and Metaphor by Frank Boers Pdf

Author : William A. Ross,Steven E. Runge
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 319 pages
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Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110777895

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Postclassical Greek Prepositions and Conceptual Metaphor by William A. Ross,Steven E. Runge Pdf

Traditional semantic description of Ancient Greek prepositions has struggled to synthesize the varied and seemingly arbitrary uses into something other than a disparate, sometimes overlapping list of senses. The Cognitive Linguistic approach of prototype theory holds that the meanings of a preposition are better explained as a semantic network of related senses that radially extend from a primary, spatial sense. These radial extensions arise from contextual factors that affect the metaphorical representation of the spatial scene that is profiled. Building upon the Cognitive Linguistic descriptions of Bortone (2009) and Luraghi (2009), linguists, biblical scholars, and Greek lexicographers apply these developments to offer more in-depth descriptions of select postclassical Greek prepositions and consider the exegetical and lexicographical implications of these findings. This volume will be of interest to those studying or researching the Greek of the New Testament seeking more linguistically-informed description of prepositional semantics, particularly with a focus on the exegetical implications of choice among seemingly similar prepositions in Greek and the challenges of potentially mismatched translation into English.

Author : Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Körtvélyessy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443869294

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Word-Formation across Languages by Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Körtvélyessy Pdf

Research into cross-linguistic aspects and typology of word-formation has not been paid relevant and systematic attention by morphologists, and only a few articles dealing with various word-formation issues of this kind appear in journals. The chapters in this volume address this issue by discussing, on contrastive principles, important questions of word-formation in a sample of 26 languages. The focus of the book, as a whole, is on typological features of word-formation in the languages sampled. It is aimed at researchers that have an interest in word-formation in a variety of languages.

Author : H. Cuyckens,Britta Zawada
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236838

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Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics by H. Cuyckens,Britta Zawada Pdf

In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually broadened from categories in the lexical and lexico-grammatical domain to morphological, syntactic, and phonological categories. The papers in this volume illustrate the importance of polysemy in describing these various categories. A first set of papers analyzes the polysemy of such lexical categories as prepositions and scalar particles, and looks at the import of polysemy in frame-based dictionary definitions. A second set shows that noun classes, case, and locative prefixes constitute meaningful and polysemous categories. Three papers, then, pay attention to polysemy from a psychological perspective, looking for psychological evidence of polysemy in lexical categories.

Author : Kenny R. Coventry,Simon C. Garrod
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135431983

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Saying, Seeing and Acting by Kenny R. Coventry,Simon C. Garrod Pdf

Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects. This is the thesis rigorously explicated in Saying, Seeing and Acting. It aims to account not only for our theoretical comprehension of spatial relations but our ability to intercede with efficacy in the world of spatially related objects. Only the phenomenon of functionality can adequately account for what even the simplest of everyday experiences show to be the technically problematic, but still meaningful status of expressions of spatial location in contentious cases. The terms of the debate are established and contextualised in Part One. In the Second Section, systematic experimental evidence is drawn upon to demonstrate specific covariances between spatial world and spatial language. The authors go on to give an original account of the functional and geometric constraints on which comprehension and human action among spatially related objects is based. Part Three looks at the interaction of these constraints to create a truly dynamic functional geometric framework for the meaningful use of spatial prepositions. Fascinating to anyone whose work touches on psycholinguistics, this book represents a thorough and incisive contribution to debates in the cognitive psychology of language.

Author : Seth Lindstromberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027211736

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English Prepositions Explained by Seth Lindstromberg Pdf

This completely revised and expanded edition of "English Prepositions Explained (EPE)," originally published in 1998, " "covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time with the focus being on short prepositions such as "at, by, in, "and "on. "Its target readership includes teachers of ESOL, pre-service translators and interpreters, undergraduates in English linguistics programs, studious advanced learners and users of English, and anyone who is inquisitive about the English language. The overall aim is to explain how and why meaning changes when one preposition is swapped for another in the same context. While retaining most of the structure of the original, this edition says more about more prepositions. It includes many more figures virtually all new. The exposition draws on recent research, and is substantially founded on evidence from digitalized corpora, including frequency data. "EPE" gives information and insights that will not be found in dictionaries and grammar handbooks."

Author : Claude Vandeloise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0226847276

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Spatial Prepositions by Claude Vandeloise Pdf

This striking study of the meaning and use of the major spatial prepositions in French provides valuable insight into how the human mind organizes spatial relationships. Most previous analyses of spatial prepositions have assumed that their semantic properties can be adequately explained by familiar logical and geometrical concepts. Thus, the standard view of the preposition "in" as it appears in the sentence "the ball is in the bag" postulates that it refers to the geometrical relation of inclusion. This paradigm, however, falters when faced with the contrast in acceptability between sentences such as "the bulb is in the socket" and "the bottle is in the cap." The force exerted by the "landmark" (a conceptually fixed object) on the "target" (a moveable object) is crucial in this difference: the functional notion of containment seems more operational in the use of the preposition "in" than inclusion. That is, what are taken to be the landmark and the target depend greatly on the functions these objects serve in the human scheme. This offers important clues to otherwise problematic linguistic quirks, such as why one sleeps in one's bed, while one is said to lie on one's deathbed. While many of the examples apply in English as well as French, there are some noteworthy differences—in French one sits on a chair, but in a couch. Vandeloise convincingly argues that it is precisely this subjective element which makes a standard geometrical account unfeasible.

Author : Marion Schulte
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823379638

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The Semantics of Derivational Morphology by Marion Schulte Pdf

This book presents a synchronic and diachronic investigation of two derivational English affixes. The suffixes -age and -ery are analysed on the basis of dictionary and corpus data and an adapted semantic map method is introduced as a new way of accounting for the semantic structure of derivatives. This study shows that the semantic structure of morphological categories can change signi ficantly over time, and that semantic maps can represent this change in a straightforward manner. The semantic maps visualise the relations and interdependencies of the readings expressed by derivatives, which leads to a new understanding of the semantic complexity of these categories.

Author : Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110872576

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The Semantics of Prepositions by Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt Pdf

Author : Günter Radden,René Dirven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292339

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Cognitive English Grammar by Günter Radden,René Dirven Pdf

Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and meaningfulness are central to the approach adopted in the book. In four major parts comprising 12 chapters, Cognitive English Grammar integrates recent cognitive approaches into one coherent model, allowing the analysis of the most central constructions of English. Part I presents the cognitive framework: conceptual and linguistic categories, their combination in situations, the cognitive operations applied to them, and the organisation of conceptual structures into linguistic constructions. Part II deals with the category of ‘things’ and their linguistic structuring as nouns and noun phrases. It shows how things are grounded in reality by means of reference, quantified by set and scalar quantifiers, and qualified by modifiers. Part III describes situations as temporal units of various layers: internally, as types of situations; and externally, as located relative to the time of speech and grounded in reality or potentiality. Part IV looks at situations as relational units and their structuring as sentences. Its two chapters are devoted to event schemas and space and metaphorical extensions of space.Cognitive English Grammar offers a wealth of linguistic data and explanations. The didactic quality is guaranteed by the frequent use of definitions and examples, a glossary of the terms used, overviews and chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, and study questions. For the Key to Study Questions click here.

Author : W. Schnotz,A. Kauertz,H. Ludwig,A. Müller,J. Pretsch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137467744

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Multidisciplinary Research on Teaching and Learning by W. Schnotz,A. Kauertz,H. Ludwig,A. Müller,J. Pretsch Pdf

This collection indicates how research on teaching and learning from multiple scientific disciplines such as educational science and psychology can be successfully pursued by a co-operation between researchers and school teachers. The contributors adopt different methodological approaches, ranging from field research to laboratory experiments.

Author : Max J. Egenhofer,Nicholas Giudice,Reinhard Moratz,Michael Worboys
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642231957

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Spatial Information Theory by Max J. Egenhofer,Nicholas Giudice,Reinhard Moratz,Michael Worboys Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2011, held in Belfast, ME, USA, in September 2011. The 23 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on maps and navigation, spatial change, spatial reasoning, spatial cognition and social aspects of space, perception and spatial semantics, and space and language.