前置詞の意味関係が示す空間カテゴリーのシステム

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The investigation of spatial categorization in English, especially the linguistic categorization of spatial concepts, has been devoted to the study of prepositions. Previous literature (Leech 1969 ; Bennett 1975 ; Miller & Johnson-Laird 1976, Rule 1989) could not capture the polysemous relations of meanings of each preposition, and Lexical Network Model has been emerged (Brugman 1981 ; Lakoff 1987 ; John-son 1987 ; Taylor 1990 ; Tyler & Evans 2003) . What these studies lack is the systematic analysis of semantics between prepositions. Spatial categorization can be clarified by investigating not only the polysemous meanings of each preposition, but also the systematic relations of semantics of prepositions. While Lexical Network Models may be feasible for the semantic analysis of each preposition, feature analysis serves better to figure out the systematic relations of prepositions, and I used semantic features to show their relations. English prepositions form systematic categorization in terms of antonymy, synonymity and distinction.