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Cognitive Explorations into the Category Schema of 'For'
Disparities exist in the way current linguistic research approaches prepositions, both in terms of definition and classification. Despite an abundance of publications containing analyses of prepositions, especially those in the English language, relatively little attention has been devoted to the pr...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2016.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Disparities exist in the way current linguistic research approaches prepositions, both in terms of definition and classification. Despite an abundance of publications containing analyses of prepositions, especially those in the English language, relatively little attention has been devoted to the preposition 'for', despite its high frequency of occurrence in English. Carried out from a cognitive perspective, and with the aid of Langacker's cognitive grammar methodology, this text provides evidence in support of the thesis that 'for' constitutes a category by itself, characterised by a complex s. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781443844994 1443844993 |