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

介词AT、FOR、IN、ON和TO的意义频率是基于当代美国英语语料库（COCA）中六个子部分（学术、小说、杂志、报纸、口语、电视/电影）的随机选择的句子来确定的。在三个班级（32名参与者）中进行了测试，以确定日本学生对目标介词感官的知识。在查阅相关文献和初步研究结果的基础上，我为剑桥认知语言学百科全书撰写并提交了三篇条目。这些文章目前正在审查中，包括一篇基于认知语言学框架的介词语义的文章（4289字）。本文回顾了过去四十年中采用的主要方法，并讨论了突出的问题。另一篇文章（3411字）是关于力动力学的，这是一种通常用于解释介词意义的理论框架。第三篇文章（4,435字）讨论了认知语言学框架的教学应用。由于一个关键的应用程序与介词的语义相关，因此本文将讨论这项工作以及在教学材料中使用抽象图。我2022年的文章《英语介词的第二语言习得》曾刊登在《富士女子大学人文学院学报》第59卷（17-44页）上，并在日本东京Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai出版的《英语语言论文集》第55期上转载。

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.