| Popis: |
The hypothesis that spatial meaning in language represents the basic meaning from which other meanings further develop is known as a localist hypothesis and according to this hypothesis spatial meanings are “the foundation of all semantics” (Bortone, 2010: 48). As Bortone notes, today most practical grammars in individual languages are based on the localist hypothesis, and even in textbooks, it is emphasized that the basic role of propositions is to denote spatial meanings. This generally accepted hypothesis about the primacy of spatial meanings of propositions was the motive for this paper. The subject of our research is the prepositional constructions with static spatial meaning in the Italian language and their equivalents in the Macedonian language. |
