Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this work provides the most comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions available. All English prepositions are originally coded as spatial relations between two physical entities. While retaining their original meaning, prepositions have also developed a rich set of non-spatial meanings. Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans argue that all the meanings are systematically related through a set of cognitive principles, emphasizing the importance of human experience with the world as the foundation for lexical meaning.
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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.' Journal of Linguistics
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Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides the most comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions available. 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 innovative study, Tyler and Evans argue that all these meanings are systematically related through a set of cognitive principles which emphasize the importance of human experience with the world as the foundation for lexical meaning.
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This review is from: The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition (Paperback)
As an amateur lexicographer at Wiktionary, I am always looking for resources that will help me inform the practice there. Terms with a largely grammatical function (conjunctions, determiners, certain adverbs, and prepositions) are the most difficult for amateurs to work on. This fine book provides masterful examples of how to tease apart the meanings of prepositions (and the related adverbs and particles) and grasp how figurative meanings emerged from the basic spatial senses. It is more systematic and specific than earlier works in the same spirit that pointed the way theoretically.
For my purposes the book rates five stars, but I have difficulty understanding how many folks could possibly have a use for it.
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other spatial particles, principled polysemy, tandem alignment, experiential correlation, conceptual spatial relation, secondary reference object, derivable from context, polysemy approach, polysemy network, perceptual accessibility, pragmatic strengthening, spatial scene, locational source, perceptual resemblance, completion sense, symbolic assemblies, petty comments, inferencing strategies, particular spatial configuration, vertical elevation, shaded sphere, human conceptual system, semantic territory, semantic network, moves bottles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
More Sense, Covering Sense, On-the-other-side-of Sense, Control Sense, Old English, Reflexive Sense, Visibility Sense, Examining Sense, Means Sense, Perceptual Accessibility Sense, Priority Sense, Above-across Sense, Location Sense, Superior Sense, English Prepositions, Quantity Cluster, State Sense, Cause Sense, Material Source Sense, Repetition Sense, George Street, Inferior Sense, Disappearance Sense, Next-one-up Sense, Sequential Sense New!
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This text might strike contemporary readers as a little unusual. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other spatial particles, principled polysemy, tandem alignment, experiential correlation, conceptual spatial relation, secondary reference object, derivable from context, polysemy approach, polysemy network, perceptual accessibility, pragmatic strengthening, spatial scene, locational source, perceptual resemblance, completion sense, symbolic assemblies, petty comments, inferencing strategies, particular spatial configuration, vertical elevation, shaded sphere, human conceptual system, semantic territory, semantic network, moves bottles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
More Sense, Covering Sense, On-the-other-side-of Sense, Control Sense, Old English, Reflexive Sense, Visibility Sense, Examining Sense, Means Sense, Perceptual Accessibility Sense, Priority Sense, Above-across Sense, Location Sense, Superior Sense, English Prepositions, Quantity Cluster, State Sense, Cause Sense, Material Source Sense, Repetition Sense, George Street, Inferior Sense, Disappearance Sense, Next-one-up Sense, Sequential Sense New!
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- Language and Space (Language, Speech, and Communication) by Paul Bloom on page 237, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by William Croft in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Semantic Structures (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Ray S. Jackendoff in Back Matter
- The Generative Lexicon (Language, Speech, and Communication) by James Pustejovsky in Back Matter
- Perceptual Development in infancy: The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 20 (Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Series) by A. Yonas in Back Matter
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