Despite the growing interest in prepositional semantics manifested by linguists and grammarians working in Cognitive Linguistics (Vandeloise (1995), Herskovits (1986), Rice and Sandra (1995), and Langacker (2000)), semantic descriptions of English prepositions remain inadequate. This research deals with the English preposition in. It is conducted within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics as presented by Ronald Langacker (1987). The thesis aims at describing the semantics of the English preposition in by identifying the semantic scope of this preposition in comparison with the prepositions at and into, by defining its semantic content in different cognitive domains, and by proposing a semantic network model for in that would bring together the preposition's different senses and link them to the underlying image-schema of this preposition.
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机译：尽管从事认知语言学的语言学家和语法学家对介词语义的兴趣日益增长（Vandeloise（1995），Herskovits（1986），Rice and Sandra（1995）和Langacker（2000）），但英语介词的语义描述仍然不足。这项研究涉及in的英语介词。它是在Ronald Langacker（1987）提出的认知语言学框架内进行的。本文的目的是通过比较英语介词的语义范围和与之对应的介词，定义英语介词的语义范围，在不同的认知领域定义其语义内容，并为此提出一个语义网络模型，从而描述英语介词的语义。汇集介词的不同含义，并将其与该介词的潜在意象图式联系起来。
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