How do Typological Studies Explain the Semantic Changes of English Complex Prepositions?

• Authors: Kazuyuki Yamaguchi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this study is to investigate the semantic changes of English complex prepositions and to argue that they are explained on the basis of two possible mechanisms of semantic change.

Keywords

EN

English complex preposition; Semantic Schema Preservation; Causal Meaning Orientation; typology; semantic change (shift)

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Topics in Linguistics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1

Dates

online

2014-07-08

Contributors

author

Kazuyuki Yamaguchi

• Nippon Sport Science University, Tokyo-Setagaya Campus, Foreign Department, 7-1-1 Nippon Sport Science University, Fukasawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8508, Japan.

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/topling-2014-0003