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Correa-Beningfield, Margarita – 1988
A study compares and contrasts a set of English and Spanish prepositions of location in the context of prototype theory. It seeks to establish the prototype concept of each preposition and the degrees of prototypicality by testing for native-speaker choices of examples that illustrate best the most basic use of the preposition. The prepositions…
Descriptors: Classification, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Interlanguage