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A Cognitive Grammar Study of the Modern Chinese Preposition “Zai”
LUO Shu-ya, ZHANG Hao-ruo
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2025.07.004
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
This paper conducts a systematic study of the preposition “zai” in Modern Chinese from the perspective of Cognitive Grammar. By analyzing the spatial positioning function, temporal positioning function, and abstract relation expression function of “zai”, it reveals the cognitive basis of its polysemy. The study finds that the semantic network of “zai” takes the spatial concept as the core, expanding to temporal and other abstract domains through metaphorical and metonymic mechanisms. The research adopts a combined method of cognitive grammar analysis, corpus analysis, and historical comparative method. Based on a large number of actual corpus data, it systematically investigates the synchronic distribution and diachronic evolution characteristics of “zai”.
modern Chinese, preposition “zai”, cognitive grammar, polysemy
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, July 2025, Vol. 15, No. 7, 553-557
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