The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition
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 grounded in the nature of human spatio-physical...
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Provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions.
PrefaceAcknowledgements1The nature of meaning12Embodied meaning and spatial experience233Towards a model of principled polysemy: spatial scenes and conceptualization374The semantic network for over645The vertical axis1076Spatial particles of orientation1327Bounded landmarks1788Conclusion229References238Index246
