Russian Prepositional Phrases: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach

by Marika Kalyuga

Book Overview

The book presents a comprehensive study of Russian prepositions, with a focus on expressing spatial characteristics. It primarily deals with how metaphorical and metonymical transfers motivate the use of Russian prepositional phrases, explaining the collocations of prepositional phrases with verbs as a realisation of a conceptual metaphor or a metonymy. The author confronts a problem that is attracting growing attention within present-day linguistics:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811552185
• ISBN13: 9789811552182
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"