Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Lexicalization patterns of prepositions
6. The Dutch spatial preposition “in”: A cognitive-semantic analysis 27
7. Dividing up physical and mental space into conceptual categories by means of English prepositions 73
8. On the grammar of lexical and non-lexical prepositions in English 99
9. Prepositions: patterns of polysemization and strategies of disambiguation 151
10. 2. Semantic categorization of prepositions and context
11. Prepositions and object concepts: A contribution to cognitive semantics 179
12. Semantic and conceptual aspects of the preposition durch 221
13. The meaning of German projective prepositions: A two-level approach 249
14. 3. Contrastive implications of prepositions
15. German temporal prepositions from an English perspective 295
16. On universality and variability in the semantics of spatial adpositions 327
17. Interpreting and translating prepositions: A cognitively based formalization 351
18. 4. Image understanding and prepositions
19. A three-level approach to the semantics of space 393
20. Computing the meaning of localization expressions involving prepositions: The role of concepts and spatial context 441
21. A contribution to reference semantics of spatial prepositions: The visualization problem and its solution in VITRA 471
22. Index 517