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Record Nr.

UNINA9910563069803321

Autore

Cienki Alan J

Titolo

Spatial Cognition and the Semantics of Prepositions in English, Polish and Russian / Alan J. Cienki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt a.M, : PH02, 1989

Edizione

[1st, New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.) : , EPDF

Collana

Slavistische Beiträge ; 237

Soggetti

linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.