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Spatial Cognition And The Semantics Of Prepositions In English Polish And Russian
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Author :Alan J. Cienki Publisher :Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN 13 : Total Pages :192 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Spatial Cognition and the Semantics of Prepositions in English, Polish, and Russian by : Alan J. Cienki
Download or read book Spatial Cognition and the Semantics of Prepositions in English, Polish, and Russian written by Alan J. Cienki and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Semantics of Prepositions by : Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
Download or read book The Semantics of Prepositions written by Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions by : Maria Brenda
Download or read book A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions written by Maria Brenda and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Spatial Concepts in Slavic by : Ljiljana Šarić
Download or read book Spatial Concepts in Slavic written by Ljiljana Šarić and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is how Slavic languages represent spatial relations, and how spatial cognition and perception influence the understanding and linguistic coding of nonspatial domains. Individual analyses concentrate on the semantics of selected prepositions and cases in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (B/C/S), providing a comparative perspective on other Slavic languages, primarily Russian and Polish. The opening analysis discusses the main theoretical notion - metaphorical extension - exemplifying the relation of spatial usages of linguistic items to non-spatial usages. This is followed by an analysis of the most basic spatial relations, "in-ness" and "on-ness." The meaning network of prepositions equivalent to on and in helps explain the meaning of the cases they combine with: the accusative and locative. Another crucial spatial relation, proximity, is taken into account in the semantic analysis of the B/C/S prepositions kod and pri, their Slavic equivalents, and cases they combine with: the genitive and locative. The next chapter deals with the spatial meaning of the dative case, examining dative's prepositional usages, the bare directional dative in B/C/S, and the semantic relation of the bare directional dative to other meaning domains of this case.
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Prepositions by : Hubert Cuyckens
Download or read book Perspectives on Prepositions written by Hubert Cuyckens and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, the study of prepositions has grown steadily. The papers collected in this volume bring together the multifaceted perspectives on prepositions that have been developed in contemporary linguistics. Some papers mainly discuss syntactic (and morphological) aspects of prepositions; other papers predominantly focus on cognitive aspects. All the papers are, however, concerned with the semantics of prepositions. This volume evolved from a workshop on prepositions held at Hamburg University on June 26 and 27, 1998.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition by : Peter Robinson
Download or read book Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition written by Peter Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-29 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge volume describes the implications of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). The first two sections identify theoretical and empirical strands of Cognitive Linguistics, presenting them as a coherent whole. The third section discusses the relevance of Cognitive Linguistics to SLA and defines a research agenda linking these fields with implications for language instruction. Its comprehensive range and tutorial-style chapters make this handbook a valuable resource for students and researchers alike.
Book Synopsis Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning by : Anne Golden
Download or read book Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning written by Anne Golden and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details patterns of language use that can be found in the writing of adult immigrant learners of Norwegian as a second language (L2). Each study draws its data from a single corpus of texts written for a proficiency test of L2 Norwegian by learners representing 10 different first language (L1) backgrounds. The participants of the study are immigrants to Norway and the book deals with the varying levels and types of language difficulties faced by such learners from differing backgrounds. The studies examine the learners’ use of Norwegian in relation to the morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic and pragmatic patterns they produce in their essays. Nearly all the studies in the book rely on analytical methods specifically designed to isolate the effects of the learners’ L1s on their use of L2 Norwegian, and every chapter highlights patterns that distinguish different L1 groups from one another.
Book Synopsis From Case to Adposition by : John Hewson
Download or read book From Case to Adposition written by John Hewson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which developed out of the uninflected particle/preverbs in the older forms of IE, by forming fixed phrases with nominal elements, a pattern later followed in the development of a configurational NP (article + nominal) and VP (auxiliary + verbal). The authors follow this evolution through almost four thousand years of documentation in all twelve language families of the Indo-European phylum, noting the resemblances between the structure of the original IE case system and the systemic oppositions to be found in the sets of adpositions that replaced it. Quite apart from its theoretical analyses and proposals which in themselves amount to a new look at many traditional problems, this study has a value in the collected store of information on cases, and on adpositions and their usage. There is also a considerable store of etymological information that is relevant to the description of the systemic development.
Download or read book Semantics written by John I. Saeed and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this popular textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to semantics for students new to the field. Explores the basic concepts and methods of the field and discusses some of the most important contemporary lines of research Contains new solutions to chapter exercises in order to familiarize the student with the practice of semantic description Completely revised and updated to reflect recent theoretical developments Includes new sections on classifiers and noun classes, as well as conceptual integration
Book Synopsis Russian Prepositional Phrases by : Marika Kalyuga
Download or read book Russian Prepositional Phrases written by Marika Kalyuga and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a comprehensive study of Russian prepositions, with a focus on expressing spatial characteristics. It primarily deals with how metaphorical and metonymical transfers motivate the use of Russian prepositional phrases, explaining the collocations of prepositional phrases with verbs as a realisation of a conceptual metaphor or a metonymy. The author confronts a problem that is attracting growing attention within present-day linguistics: the semantics of prepositions and cases. The book seeks to clarify the conceptual motivations for the use of the combinations of Russian primary prepositional phrases, as well as to demonstrate how their spatial meanings are extended into non-spatial domains. This book incorporates an analysis of a large number of items, including 30 combinations of primary prepositions with cases. An original contribution, the book is of interest to teachers and students studying Slavic languages, and to cognitive linguists.
Download or read book USSR written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rethinking Linguistic Relativity by : John J. Gumperz
Download or read book Rethinking Linguistic Relativity written by John J. Gumperz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-11 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic relativity is the claim that culture, through language, affects the way in which we think, and especially our classification of the experienced world. This book reexamines ideas about linguistic relativity in the light of new evidence and changes in theoretical climate. The editors have provided a substantial introduction that summarizes changes in thinking about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in the light of developments in anthropology, linguistics and cognitive science. Introductions to each section will be of especial use to students.
Book Synopsis The Ontogenetic Development of Literal and Metaphorical Space in Language by : Eva-Maria Graf
Download or read book The Ontogenetic Development of Literal and Metaphorical Space in Language written by Eva-Maria Graf and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Semantics of English Prepositions by : Andrea Tyler
Download or read book The Semantics of English Prepositions written by Andrea Tyler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Theories of Lexical Semantics by : Dirk Geeraerts
Download or read book Theories of Lexical Semantics written by Dirk Geeraerts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in linguistic theory, no overview of the main theoretical trends in lexical semantics is currently available. This book fills that gap by charting the evolution of the discipline from the mid nineteenth century to the present day. It presents the main ideas, the landmark publications, and thedominant figures of five traditions: historical-philological semantics, structuralist semantics, generativist semantics, neostructuralist semantics, and cognitive semantics. The theoretical and methodological relationship between the approaches is a major point of attention throughout the text: going well beyond amere chronological enumeration, the book does not only describe the theoretical currents of lexical semantics, but also the undercurrents that have shaped its evolution.
Download or read book Language and Space written by Paul Bloom and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 15 essays in this volume bring together research and theoretical viewpoints in the areas of psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience, presenting a synthesis across these diverse domains. Throughout, authors address and debate each others arguments and theories.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by : Dirk Geeraerts
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics written by Dirk Geeraerts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive Linguistics and their background. The book starts with a set of chapters discussing different conceptual phenomena that are recognized as key concepts in Cognitive Linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, mental spaces, etc. A second set of chapters deals with Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar, and Word Grammar, which, each in their own way, bring together the basic concepts into a particular theory of grammar and a specific model for the description of grammatical phenomena. Special attention is given to the interrelation between Cognitive and Construction Grammar. A third set of chapters compares Cognitive Linguistics with other forms of linguistic research (functional linguistics, autonomous linguistics, and the history of linguistics), thus giving a readers a better grip on the position of Cognitive Linguistics within the landscape of linguistics at large. The remaining chapters apply these basic notions to various more specific linguistic domains, illustrating how Cognitive Linguistics deals with the traditional linguistic subdomains (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax, text and discourse), and demonstrating how it handles linguistic variation and change. Finally they consider its importance in the domain of Applied Linguistics, and look at interdisciplinary links with research fields such as philosophy and psychology. With a well-known cast of contributors from around the world, this reference work will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in (cognitive) linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology.
