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4.0 out of 5 stars
Very helpful for its specialized audience,
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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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The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition by Andrea Tyler (Paperback - November 29, 2007)
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