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| Nov 28, 2012 at 1:47 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | Ahh, using a spatial metaphor to describe spatial prepositions! That was one layer too many for my poor, old brain. But I understand what you/they mean now. How about primary v. derived sense? Or literal v. metaphorical? Incidentally, you could say temporal use is perhaps derived from spatial use, as it usually happens with conceptual metaphors, like a long time, back in time, at this time, when the time comes, etc. In all this, I feel that spatial usage is primary or older, although I don't have an references on hand. | |
| Nov 27, 2012 at 22:29 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2012 at 20:54 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I was trying not to use prototypical. At paaljapan.org/resources/proceedings/PAAL10/pdfs/kodachi.pdf is: ...prepositions...have a function to relate X and Y semantically. By doing so, prepositions express the 'spatial' relations between the values X and Y. Here, the concept space has a variety of sub-concepts such as locative, temporal, psychological and social. (Tanaka)...Bennett (1975) advocated localistic theory ... the centre of the relation is locative space, and other sub-concepts are derived from it. (I am aware that CGEL use the term central differently here; EA.) | |
| Nov 27, 2012 at 12:35 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | +1 What does "peripheral" mean in this sense? Are you talking about complements v. satellites? In other words, what's the centre and what the periphery? | |
| Nov 27, 2012 at 12:28 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2012 at 12:23 | history | answered | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |