This paper proposes a cognitive-semiotic model for teaching English prepositions within teacher training programs.The model is presented as a three-session grammar module that involves 1)creating an environment for th...
Prepositions in English language have the characteristics of polysemy,and their semantics meanings have significant abstract features.Based on the perspective of cognition and taking on and over as examples,this thesi...
A majority of contracts will use many prepositions and prepositional phrases to reflect their preciseness which cause the treaty wording complicated and hard to understand. This paper tends to demonstrate the characte...
Prepositions"in,on,at"can be used as spatial prepositions as well as temporal prepositions.The temporal usages of "in,on,at"vary from each other in indicating different concepts of time.ESL students are often confused...
Before we focus association and collocation on a given subject,it is highly important to pay attention to association and collocation between word-classes.The essay endeavors to restate the key rules of association an...
In the present study, the author, by using a cognitive approach, investigated the cognitive semantic structures of the polysemy of prepositions and took "in" and "over" as examples to describe the different senses...
National Social Science Foundation in China,No.03BYY013;The Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,No."333" Project and QL200504
BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that closed-class words, such as prepositions and conjunctions, induce a left anterior negativity (N280), indicating that N280 should be a specific component of the word category. OBJ...
1. IntroductionAs and than, when used to introduce clauses of comparison, are generally regarded as subordinating conjunctions. As is often used as a correlative to as in the construction as ... as, than is often used...