A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks
Maria Brenda and Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska
[Human Cognitive Processing, 74] 2022. xiii, 242 pp.
Maria Brenda
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Brenda plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2019 The semantics of the English complex preposition next to Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:2, pp. 438–464 | Article
The present paper is an analysis of the semantic structure of the complex spatial preposition next to. Theoretical concepts of the cognitive framework promote a deep understanding of spatial relations and their metaphorical transfers encoded by individual prepositional senses. Assuming the… read more
2017 A cognitive perspective on the semantics of near Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:1, pp. 121–153 | Article
The present study investigates the semantic structure of the word near assuming that its distinct senses form a semantic network with a prototypical spatial sense at the center and various extended senses at different distances away from the prototype. In order to explain the extensions of near,… read more