Prescribed spatial prepositions influence how we think about time
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Prescribed spatial prepositions influence how we think about time.
Prepositions combine with nouns flexibly when describing concrete locative relations (e.g. at/on/in the school) but are rigidly prescribed when paired with abstract concepts (e.g. at risk; on Wednesday; in trouble). In the former case they do linguistic work based on their discrete semantic qualities, and in the latter they appear to serve a primarily grammatical function. We used the abstract ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.09.008