Pelyvás, PéterGömöri, János2013-06-142013-06-142009-12-142013-06-14http://hdl.handle.net/2437/170912Many authors of books about prepositions note that the investigations of prepositions before 1980s was relatively scarce. Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt speaks about the preposition as “a lexical category which had long been neglected in linguistic inquiry” in the introduction of “The Semantics of Prepositions” (Zelinsky-Wibbelt 1). Expressed in the entry about adpositions in the Encyclopedia of Linguistics, D Kurzon’s opinion is that “the grammatical treatment of adpositions has undergone considerable change over the last three decades or so. In traditional approaches, the adposition was viewed merely as a minor word class consisting of a small set of words; it was very often treated briefly within a page or so” (Brown 63). Are prepositions merely connectors of other words? Are they connectors without meaning? In this introductory chapter, two of the most important distinctions will be addressed: the homonymy/polysemy and the closed-class—open-class. Before starting a study, analysts of prepositions need to decide about the above distinctions and these decisions will have a huge impact on the analysis... (Introduction)43enEnglish languageprepositionssemanticscognitive grammardiplomamunkaDEENK Témalista::Nyelvtudomány::Nyelvészetip