"4384","UNDERSTANDING PREPOSITIONS THROUGH COGNITIVE GRAMMAR.  A CASE OF IN ","Poly - semantic nature of prepositions has been discussed in linguistic literature and confirmed by language data. In the majority of research within cognitive linguistics prepositions have been approached as predicates organising entities in space, with less attention paid to the search for a meaning schema sanctioning the numerous uses. Cognitive Grammar analytic tools allow for the analysis which results in discovering one meaning schema sanctioning the uses of the English preposition in. The present analysis is based on the assumption that the meaning schema of  in profiles a  relation of conceptual enclosure between two symbolic structures, one of which conceptually fits in the other. Accordingly, I argue that the speaker employs in to structure a real scene not because one element of the scene can physically enclose the other one, but due to conceptual ‘fitting in’ holding between the predication ‘preceding’ the preposition and the one that ‘follows’. In formal terms, the usage of in is conditioned and sanctioned by compatibility of active zones in the predications used to form the complex language expression involved. Peculiarities of physical organization may be ignored in such conceptualisation, though the speaker can choose to encode all peculiarities of physical organisation of real world objects employing different linguistic devices.","http://cogprints.org/4384/","Turewicz, prof. Kamila","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Turewicz, prof. Kamila</span>     (2004)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/4384/\"><em>UNDERSTANDING PREPOSITIONS THROUGH COGNITIVE GRAMMAR.  A CASE OF IN.</em></a>       [Preprint]           ","","2004-09"