VERIFICATION OF A POLYSEMOUS SPATIAL PREPOSITION “ON”
Keywords:
Spatial; configurations; support; contact; contiguity; pragmatic tolerance; complicated perceptual; geometric; pragmatic; conventional; non-target; adjacency; usage types.Abstract
The simplest type of spatial expressions containing prepositional phrases in English. One of the main functions for spatial prepositions is to indicate a specific location in a large space, The preposition on describes “support,” “contact,” or “contiguity” relationships that exist between the Figure and the Ground objects. Herskovits categorizes all the examples in into one category, which she calls, “Spatial entity supported by a physical object,” The article presents theoretical ideas in this regard and proves them with examples.
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