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Au-Dela des Descriptions Geometriques et Logiques de L'espace: Une Description Fonctionnelle
- Source: Lingvisticæ Investigationes, Volume 9, Issue 1, Jan 1985, p. 109 - 129
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Abstract
Which is the best way of describing spatial prepositions? Even though geometry and logic provide rigorous and useful tools for this undertaking, I will show that they fall short from describing completely these prepositions. A complete description must take into consideration the movement and the function of their prepositional terms as well as cognitive notions like access to perception, potential meeting, the relationship container/ contained, etc. General orientation, a family resemblance concept whose main features are the frontal direction, the direction of movement and the line of sight, is also needed.
© 1985 John Benjamins Publishing Company