LINGUIST List 11.1177

Tue May 23 2000

Qs: Reference "Effectum", Spatial Preposition "by"

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

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1. Toshiyuki Kumashiro, Reference to "Effectum"
2. Markus J�ger, Spatial Preposition "by"

Hello,

I believe it is Lyons who used the term "effectum" to describe the direct 
object of a verb of creation such as "to make", which is not "affected" by 
the action, but "effected" into existence. Can anyone tell me in which work 
he introduced the term?

Thanks.

Toshiyuki Kumashiro.
Keio University

I am currently working on my master's thesis which will be an analysis
of the semantics of the English spatial preposition "by" against a
cognitive background. This is going to involve the search for a
single underlying meaning of all the spatial, temporal and abstract
metaphorical extensions of this preposition. Moreover, I hope to find
clues to establishing a sort of sense chain to link all the
extensional meanings of "by" to each other on the basis of image
schematic representations and the metaphors employed.

Although I have found thorough semantic analyses of English prepositions
such as "over", I haven't found any in-depth analyses of "by" - apart from a
few short articles by Rene Dirven, for example.

I would be glad to hear from anyone who can give me some information on this
topic or who would like to give me a few hints.
If there are any brand-new publications I haven't heard of in Austria yet -
please e-mail me!

Thanks,
Markus J�ger, Vienna University