Franka Kermer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Franka Kermer is involved.
Articles
2023 The semantic mapping of the German spatial preposition JENSEITS Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:2, pp. 515–541 | Article
The present study aims to investigate the semantic value of the German spatial preposition jenseits (‘beyond’). It is argued that our conceptualization of the spatial-physical world and how we interact with objects in our environment transforms a prepositions’ primary meaning into domains of… read more
2021 Semantic network of the German preposition
hinter
Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2, pp. 403–428 | Article
The present study sets out to construct a semantic network for the German preposition hinter (‘behind’) based on the theoretical framework of “principled polysemy”. The analysis regarding the cognitive and pragmatic aspects motivating the meaning extensions of hinter attempts to highlight the… read more