Reconsidering Prepositional Polysemy Networks: The Case of Over
Reconsidering Prepositional Polysemy Networks: The Case of Over
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重新考虑介词多义网络：Over 的案例
DOI：
10.1353/lan.2001.0250
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发表时间：
2001
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
V. Evans
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作者：
A. Tyler;V. Evans
本文通过对英语介词over的深入分析，探讨了词汇的一词多义现象。本研究在认知语言学的框架下，阐明了心理词汇的非任意性和人类概念系统的高度创造性。分析认为：（1）人的概念化是体验的产物，即人的身体类型和神经结构与人所处的空间-物理世界的性质相结合，决定了人的概念结构;（2）语义结构来源于概念结构并反映概念结构。当人类与世界互动时，他们感知到重复出现的空间配置，这些空间配置在记忆中表现为抽象的、意象的概念化。我们认为，每个介词都有一个基本意义，我们称之为原场景。原型场景反过来又与一套高度受限的认知原则相互作用，衍生出一套额外的不同意义，形成一个有动机的语义网络。以前的帐户没有开发出足够的标准来区分编码在正式的语言表达和概念化的性质，它集成的方式，是最大限度地连贯和视情况而定的语言提示与真实世界的知识。为此，我们提出了一种方法来识别原型场景和区分不同的意义。
This article explores lexical polysemy through an in-depth examination of the English preposition over. Working within a cognitive linguistic framework, the present study illustrates the nonarbitrary quality of the mental lexicon and the highly creative nature of the human conceptual system. The analysis takes the following as basic: (1) human conceptualization is the product of embodied experience, that is, the kinds of bodies and neural architecture humans have, in conjunction with the nature of the spatio-physical world humans inhabit, determine human conceptual structure, and (2) semantic structure derives from and reflects conceptual structure. As humans interact with the world, they perceive recurring spatial configurations that become represented in memory as abstract, imagistic conceptualizations. We posit that each preposition is represented by a primary meaning, which we term a PROTOSCENE. The protoscene, in turn, interacts with a highly constrained set of cognitive principles to derive a set of additional distinct senses, forming a motivated semantic network. Previous accounts have failed to develop adequate criteria to distinguish between coding in formal linguistic expression and the nature of conceptualization, which integrates linguistic prompts in a way that is maximally coherent with and contingent upon sentential context and real-world knowledge. To this end, we put forward a methodology for identifying the protoscene and for distinguishing among distinct senses.