科技信息
科技信息
과기신식
SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL INFORMATION
2010年
20期
109-110
,共2页
preposition%cognitive and semantic%conceptual schemas%metaphorical extension
By assuming that the meaning of natural languages is rooted in the human capacity for conceptualization, this paper examines the semantic structure of the English preposition in, and suggests an analysis within cognitive semantics where it is argued,that the various sense of prepositions are extended from a central sense in quite systematic ways and the figurative senses from the spatial ones through conceptual metaphors.
