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Spatial language: a contrastive analysis of the English over and Croatian preko

This paper is based on the assumption that polysemous words designating spatial relations are best described in terms of lexical networks of interrelated senses in the framework of cognitive semantics. An overview is given of existing cognitive semantic studies of over and a similar network analysis is carried out for the conceptually related Croatian spatial preposition preko. The two words are compared on the basis of image schematic representations. It is by contrasting related image schemas from a different language that some properties of conceptual relationships within the lexical network in question may be illuminated.

contrastive analysis; semantics; cognitive linguistics; prepositional networks

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