PREPOSITIONS AND NATURAL PHENOMENA: A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF SERBIAN, FRENCH AND GREEK
Keywords:
preposition, mass, count, discrete, space, time, contrastive analysisAbstract
In this paper we analyze the usage of the prepositions po, na and u in Serbian, both in the spatial and the more abstract domain of so-called “natural phenomena“. We show that the difference in their semantics is conceptually based on two basic cognitive oppositions: the contact - containment and the mass-count oppositions. In the contrastive part of our work we compare the Serbian data with their equivalents in French and English.
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Casati, Roberto & Varzi, Achille, (1999), Parts and places: the structure of spatial representation, A Bradford Book, the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England.
Ivić, Milka, (1995), O zelenom konju, XX Vek, Beograd.
Jackendoff, Ray, (1996), “The Architecture of Linguistic – Spatial Interface“, in Bloom, P. Pustejovsky J. (1995), The Generative Lexicon, Cambridge (Mass.), The MIT Press.
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06-30-2008
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Станојевић, В. Ј., & Ашић, Т. В. (2008). PREPOSITIONS AND NATURAL PHENOMENA: A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF SERBIAN, FRENCH AND GREEK. Nasleđe, 5(9), 19–27. Retrieved from http://35.189.211.7/index.php/nasledje/article/view/121
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