Language, Cognition and Space - The State of the Art and New Directions - Vyvyan Evans
9 From the spatial to the non-spatial: the ‘state’ lexical concepts of in, on and at
Language, Cognition and Space - The State of the Art and New Directions - Vyvyan Evans
Vyvyan Evans [+]
Bangor University
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Vyvyan Evans is Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University and author of numerous books relating to cognitive linguistics. These include How Words Mean, The Structure of Time, The Semantics of English Prepositions (with Andrea Tyler), Cognitive Linguistics (with Melanie Green), and A Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics.
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This chapter is concerned with modelling the lexical representation of spatial relations, particularly as encoded by English prepositions, and examining how these spatial relations give rise to non-spatial meanings.