"Across, by" et "through". Considérations sur les conditions de représentation métalinguistique des prépositions

Eric Gilbert (1)

1 CRISCO - Centre de recherche inter-langues sur la signification en contexte

This paper attempts to show that a representation based exclusively on extralinguistic spatial properties cannot hope to account for all the different meanings of prepositional phrases. This can only be achieved through a much more abstract metalinguistic representation, formulated in terms of mental rather than spatial topology, as is demonstrated through the analysis of three prepositions, namely across, by and through.

Domains: Linguistics

Eric Gilbert. "Across, by" et "through". Considérations sur les conditions de représentation métalinguistique des prépositions. Anglophonia / Caliban - French Journal of English Linguistics, 2003, 14, pp.37-61. ⟨hal-02152920⟩