The Geometry Of Preposition Meanings

This article presents a unified approach to the semantics of prepositions based on the theory of conceptual spaces. Following the themes of my recent book The Geometry of Meaning, I focus on the convexity of their meanings and on which semantic domains are expressed by prepositions. As regards conve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peter Gärdenfors
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2015-12-01
Series:The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
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Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1098&context=biyclc