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Spatial Concepts in Slavic : a Cognitive Linguistic Study of Prepositions and Cases.

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/Serbia...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saric, Ljiljana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014.
Colección:Slavistische Studienbücher. Neue Folge.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (313 pages)
ISBN:9783447191845
3447191848