Linguistics, Vol. 7 No. 1-2, 2006.
Original scientific paper
A preliminary semantic analysis of the Croatian preposition u and its Slavic equivalents
Ljiljana Šarić
orcid.org/0000-0003-4373-9182
; Institutt for litteratur, områdestudier og europeiske språk (ILOS) Universitetet i Oslo
Abstract
The subject of this article is a cognitive semantic analysis of the Croatian basic
containment preposition u. This analysis seeks to elaborate image schemas underlying
stationary contexts with u-locatives and dynamic contexts with uaccusatives.
The analysis aims to show general directions of prepositional meaning
extensions from the spatial into other domains, as well as point to the convergences
and divergences in the usage of basic spatial prepositions in Slavic.
Keywords
spatial prepositions; preposition u; containment; image schemas for stationary and directional contexts
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30843
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Publication date:
15.12.2006.
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