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Book: Language, Cognition and Space

Chapter: 9 From the spatial to the non-spatial: the ‘state’ lexical concepts of in, on and at

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.22031

Blurb:

This chapter is concerned with modelling the lexical representation of spatial relations, particularly as encoded by English prepositions, and examining how these spatial relations give rise to non-spatial meanings.

Chapter Contributors

  • Vyvyan Evans (book-auth-177@equinoxpub.com - book-auth-177) 'Bangor University'