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An approach ecolinguistics of prepositions portuguese

open access: yesCadernos de Letras da UFF, 2017
This article focuses on the study of prepositions from the Ecology of Spatial Relations (ERE) equivalent to what is presented in normative grammars, this way, the objective is to expose the ERE and contrasts it with the descriptions grammars do ...
Lajla Katherine Rocha Simião
doaj  

Selective Deposition of Charged Droplets for Programmable and Rewritable Printing of Patterned Microstructure Arrays

open access: yesAdvanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 25, 4 May 2026.
A residual‐charge‐induced electric field control (SDREC) strategy enables the fabrication of patterned microstructure arrays with a resolution of 20 µm via the selective deposition of charged droplets. The resulting arrays exhibit reversible writing/erasing, optical encryption, and selective silver electrode formation, offering a versatile route to ...
Yuechen Pei   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Image Schema Theoretic Analysis of None-Literal Meanings of Prepositions in English and Arabic Religious Texts

open access: yesمجلة الآداب
This paper investigates the non-literal meanings of prepositions in English and Arabic religious texts, focusing on how image schemas shape these meanings.
Sahar Mohammad, Mahdi Kareem
doaj   +1 more source

Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
wiley   +1 more source

UNDERSTANDING PREPOSITIONS THROUGH COGNITIVE GRAMMAR. A CASE OF IN [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Poly - semantic nature of prepositions has been discussed in linguistic literature and confirmed by language data. In the majority of research within cognitive linguistics prepositions have been approached as predicates organising entities in space, with
Turewicz, prof. Kamila
core  

The Syntax of Spatial Anaphora

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive Minimalist analysis of the apparent free variation between pronouns and anaphors in snake-sentences. Three sets of data provide the basis for the analysis: hitherto unobserved restrictions on quantifier-pronoun ...
Johan Rooryck, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
doaj   +1 more source

On Functional Peculiarities of Locative Prepositions As Means of Spatial Relationships Expression in the German Language

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2015
The article presents locative prepositions as tools of space conceptualization and verbalization in the German language. The author states that there is some close interlink between two concepts – Man and space, and it plays an initial role in the ...
Larisa Mikhaylovna Generalova
doaj   +1 more source

Various Views on Spatial Prepositions.

open access: yesAI Mag., 1988
In this article, principles involving the intrinsic, deictic, and extrinsic use of spatial prepositions are examined from linguistic, psychological, and AI approaches. First, I define some important terms. Second, those prepositions which permit intrinsic, deictic, and extrinsic use are specified.
openaire   +2 more sources

From Pixels to Prepositions: Linking Visual Perception with Spatial Prepositions far and near

open access: yesCognitive Computation
Abstract Introduction: Human language is influenced by sensory-motor experiences. Sensory experiences gathered in a spatiotemporal world are used as raw material to create more abstract concepts. In language, one way to encode spatial relationships is through spatial prepositions.
Krishna Raj S. R   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Expressions of Caused Motion in Vietnamese: A Perspective from Cognitive Linguistics

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2022
This paper examines how Vietnamese speakers express caused motion by applying cause verbs. The theory of cognitive linguistics is adopted to shed light on the properties of semantics and syntax of Vietnamese expressions of caused motion.
Ngoc Toan Ly
doaj  

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