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Spatial prepositions in cognitive lexical semantics

This paper presents a survey of the semantic study of (spatial) prepositions in cognitive linguistics. It shows how cognitive semantics can fruitfully describe the conceptual/semantic information in (spatial) prepositions in terms of a family-resemblance network of interrelated meanings. By way of illustration, it examines the range of spatial usages of the Dutch preposition in and the spatial and non-spatial usages of the Dutch preposition door.

cognitive semantics, lexical meaning, prepostions

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