The Semantics of Some Oromo Adpositions
Debela Goshu Amante
Broschiertes Buch

The Semantics of Some Oromo Adpositions

The role of metaphor and metonymy in meaning extension

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This book mainly deals with the semantic networks of the polysemous Oromo frontal adpositions. The Cognitive Linguistics theory framework developed and elaborated by Langacker (1987, 2000), Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and Lakoff (1987), is used as a tool to study the semantics of the adpositions.The frontal adpositions are categorized as front and back adpositions based on whether they locate the trajector on the front or back side of an oriented landmark.The front adpositions such as fuuldura in front of , dura before and fuullee before locate a trajector in relation to the front of an oriented...