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SPATIAL CONCEPTS IN SLAVIC - LJILJANA SARIC KAR...

The focus of this book is how Slavic languages represent spatial relations  and how spatial
cognition and perception influence the understanding and linguistic coding of nonspatial
domains. Individual analyses concentrate on the semantics of selected prepositions and cases in
Bosnian Croatian Serbian (B C S)  providing a comparative perspective on other Slavic languages
primarily Russian and Polish. The opening analysis discusses the main theoretical notion -
metaphorical extension - exemplifying the relation of spatial usages of linguistic items to
non-spatial usages. This is followed by an analysis of the most basic spatial relations 
in-ness and on-ness. The meaning network of prepositions equivalent to on and in helps explain
the meaning of the cases they combine with: the accusative and locative. Another crucial
spatial relation  proximity  is taken into account in the semantic analysis of the B C S
prepositions kod and pri  their Slavic equivalents  and cases they combine with: the genitive
and locative. The next chapter deals with the spatial meaning of the dative case  examining
dative's prepositional usages  the bare directional dative in B C S  and the semantic relation
of the bare directional dative to other meaning domains of this case.

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