A New Frequency-Based Account of Common English Prepositions and Their Acquisition by Japanese Learners

介词AT、For、IN、On和To的词义频率是根据《当代美国英语语料库》(COCA)的六个子节(学术、小说、杂志、报纸、口语、电视/电影)中随机抽取的句子确定的。本研究以三个班(32名受试者)为研究对象，对日本学生的目标介词意义认知水平进行了测试。在回顾相关文献和初步研究成果的基础上，我为《剑桥认知语言学百科全书》撰写并提交了三个词条。目前正在审查的这些文章包括一篇关于基于认知语言学框架的介词语义的文章(4289字)。本文回顾了过去40年采取的主要方法，并讨论了悬而未决的问题。另一篇文章(3411字)涉及力动力学，这是解释介词意义时经常使用的理论框架。第三篇文章(4,435字)讨论了认知语言框架在教学中的应用。由于介词的一个关键应用与介词的语义有关，因此本文结合教材中抽象图的使用对这一工作进行了讨论。我在2022年发表的文章《英语介词的第二语言习得》，之前发表在《富士女子大学人文学院公报》第59卷(第17-44页)上，被重新发表在日本东京Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai出版的第55期英语文集上。

The frequency of the senses of the prepositions AT, FOR, IN, ON, and TO were determined based on a random selection of sentences in six subsections (Academic, Fiction, Magazines, Newspapers, Spoken, TV/Movies) of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Measures to determine Japanese students' knowledge of the target prepositional senses were piloted with three classes (32 participants). Based on a review of the relevant literature and preliminary results of the research, I wrote and submitted three entries for the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Cognitive Linguistics. These articles, currently under review, included an article (4,289 words) on the semantics of prepositions based on the Cognitive Linguistic framework. The article reviews key approaches adopted in the last four decades and also discusses outstanding issues. Another article (3,411 words) dealt with force dynamics, a theoretical framework often employed when accounting for prepositional meaning. The third article (4,435 words) discussed pedagogical applications of the Cognitive Linguistic framework. Since a key application has been related to the semantics of prepositions, the article discussed this work along with the use of abstract diagrams in instruction materials. My 2022 article "Second Language Acquisition of English Prepositions", which previously appeared in The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Fuji Women’s University, Vol. 59 (pp. 17-44), was republished in the 55th issue of Collected Articles on English Language by the Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai in Tokyo, Japan.