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  • On the river, on an island, on the street: The semantics of English on-constructions involving “laterality”

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    Goddard, Cliff
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    Goddard, Cliff W.
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    This study analyses a set of highly English-specific on-constructions of the form [on + NPPLACE], such as: on the bank of the river, (a house) on the beach, on an island, on the plains, on the street, on a farm. The analysis is conducted in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework originated by Anna Wierzbicka. Six semantically discrete construction types are identified and each is assigned a semantic schema framed in the metalanguage of semantic primes. All of them, it is argued, include a semantic component involving "laterality" (semantic prime SIDE), often in combination with a component involving visibility ...
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    This study analyses a set of highly English-specific on-constructions of the form [on + NPPLACE], such as: on the bank of the river, (a house) on the beach, on an island, on the plains, on the street, on a farm. The analysis is conducted in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework originated by Anna Wierzbicka. Six semantically discrete construction types are identified and each is assigned a semantic schema framed in the metalanguage of semantic primes. All of them, it is argued, include a semantic component involving "laterality" (semantic prime SIDE), often in combination with a component involving visibility (SEE). These constructions, along with others, constitute a complex network of grammatical polysemy in English.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics
    Volume
    3
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    https://novapublishers.com/
    Copyright Statement
    © 2013 Nova Science Publishers. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. It is posted here with permission of the copyright owner[s] for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this journal please refer to the journal’s website or contact the author[s].
    Subject
    Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
    Cognitive Sciences
    Linguistics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/54781
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