Evans Vyvyan. From the spatial to the non-spatial: the ‘state’ lexical concepts of in, on and at

// In V. Evans and P. Chilton (eds.). Language, Cognition and Space: The State of the Art and New Directions. — London: Equinox, 2010. — pp. 215-248.This paper is concerned with modelling the lexical representation of spatial relations, particularly as encoded by English prepositions, and examining how these spatial relations give rise to non-spatial meanings. In particular, the paper develops an LCCM Theory account of the ‘state’ lexical concepts for the prepositional forms in, on, and at. The paper shows how this treatment builds upon and revises the earlier Principled Polysemy account of spatial semantics.