Essays about: "spatial prepositions"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words spatial prepositions.
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1. Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Preposition Acquisition in an ESL Context with Arabic Learners
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : 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
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2. The acquisition of Swedish prepositions : A longitudinal study of child comprehension and production of spatial prepositions
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikAbstract : 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
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3. Spatial Relations in Persian : An investigation on the locative use of prepositions with comparison to English
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikAbstract : 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
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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 litteraturerAbstract : 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
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5. Space and time in Mmen
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : 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