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The Iconicity of Embodied Meaning. Polysemy of Spatial Prepositions in the Cognitive Framework
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Van der Gucht, Fieke; Willems, Klaas; De Cuypere, Ludovic – Language Sciences, 2007
This paper examines the concept of polysemy which serves as the basis of the "principled polysemy model" of spatial prepositions proposed by A. Tyler and V. Evans in a number of recent publications [Tyler, Andrea, Evans, Vyvyan, 2001. Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: The case of "over". Language 77, 724-765;…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Diachronic Linguistics, Linguistic Theory