Essays about: "Spatial prepositions"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Spatial prepositions.

  1. 1. Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Preposition Acquisition in an ESL Context with Arabic Learners

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Louie Al Emam; [2019]
    Keywords : : ESL; SLA; prepositions; cognitive linguistics; Arabic-speaking students; traditional approaches; spatial relations.;

    Abstract : Teaching prepositions in the context of English as a foreign language (ESL) can be particularly challenging. The present research explored the ability of Arabic-speaking students to understand and use prepositions and examined the efficacy of using cognitive linguistics to train them on the for and to prepositions. READ MORE

  3. 2. The acquisition of Swedish prepositions : A longitudinal study of child comprehension and production of spatial prepositions

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Sofia Tahbaz; [2018]
    Keywords : Child language acquisition; Spatial prepositions; Comprehension; Production; Parent-child interaction; Structured test; SECDI; Barns språkutveckling; Spatiala prepositioner; Förståelse; Produktion; Förälder-barn interaktion; Strukturerat test; SECDI;

    Abstract : Prepositions are acquired at earliest during the second year of life. This thesis investigates 16 children acquiring Swedish spatial prepositions, i.e. på ‘on/at’, i ‘in/at’, under ‘under’, bredvid ‘beside/next to’, bakom ‘behind/back’ and framför ‘in front’. READ MORE

  4. 3. Spatial Relations in Persian : An investigation on the locative use of prepositions with comparison to English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Niloofar Moltaji; [2016]
    Keywords : Ezāfe; compound preposition; preposition; primary preposition; secondary preposition; spatial relation;

    Abstract : This study is an investigation on the spatial span of Persian prepositions in colloquial speech, focusing on the locative use of prepositions. The results are compared with English prepositions as well. In order to show the functional span of various prepositions, the Typological Relations Picture Series known as TRPS or BowPed is used. READ MORE

  5. 4. The embodied meanings of towards and against Two English prepositions from a cognitive and contrastive linguistics perspective

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Maria Forsmann; [2014-02-19]
    Keywords : english; polysemy; cognitive linguistics; spatial scene; trajector; contrastive linguistics; corpus; equivalent;

    Abstract : This is a study of semantic differences in the use of the English prepositions towards and against analysed in terms of cognitive linguistics. The data for this analysis is provided by a selection of 120 sentence examples from the British National Corpus, BNC. READ MORE

  6. 5. Space and time in Mmen

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Signe Nilsson; [2013]
    Keywords : semantics; temporal relations; prepositions; spatial relations; bantu languages; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis provides an analysis of the linguistic expression of spatial and temporal relations in Mmen, a Niger-Congo language spoken in Bafumen, in the North West Region of Cameroon. Linguistic means of expressing spatial relations are surveyed in usage and in grammatical structure, and categorized according to the patterns found. READ MORE