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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
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Subject: Re: Ups and Downs
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 00:20:14 EDT
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Some linguists, mostly in California and often working under the rubric
of "Space Grammar", have been making interesting attempts to account for
some of these peculiar prepositional usages.  The attempt to explain them
as complicated metaphors from very general meanings of the prepositions,
rather than treating them as purely conventional and idiomatic.  George
Lakoff and Ronald Langacker are among the sources of this way of thinking.
An interesting article representative of this sort of work is "How to be
in the know about 'on the go' " by Claudia Brugman in CLS 19 (Papers from
the 19th Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, 1983).