Spatial Cognition and the Semantics of Prepositions in English, Polish, and Russian

Spatial Cognition and the Semantics of Prepositions in English, Polish, and Russian
Author: Alan J. Cienki
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1989
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

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.

The Semantics of Prepositions

The Semantics of Prepositions
Author: Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110872579

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions
Author: Maria Brenda
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2022-10-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027257434

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.

Spatial Concepts in Slavic

Spatial Concepts in Slavic
Author: Ljiljana Šarić
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783447058063

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.

Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition

Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2008-03-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135604185

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.

Perspectives on Prepositions

Perspectives on Prepositions
Author: Hubert Cuyckens
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-07-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110924781

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.

Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning

Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning
Author: Anne Golden
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783098783

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.

From Case to Adposition

From Case to Adposition
Author: John Hewson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2006-12-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027292965

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.

Semantics

Semantics
Author: John I. Saeed
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2011-08-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1444358758

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

Russian Prepositional Phrases

Russian Prepositional Phrases
Author: Marika Kalyuga
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9811552169

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.