A Semantic Analysis of UP

초록

Certain words and phrases are often limited with regard to their semantic context and meaning, or they may be observed as too polysemous to warrant a proper semantic description. In the current work, we show some of the significant influences on the preposition up for the purpose of understanding its core meaning, prototypical meaning, and change over time, metaphoric uses and various metaphorical extensions which have been added to it. As a focal point to the study, we concentrate on the use of up and its linguistic description to help determine, which grammatical representation of the word is the most challenging. The procedures for making determinations themselves are rather straight-forward. The study includes a variety of usages which are dependent on contextual association, phrasal assignment, metaphorical extension, and grammatical requirements with respect to given semantic contexts. There are certain dependent variables when using up in certain cases which may induce somewhat contradictory expectations. Therefore, a base approach is used to introduce the complex relationship of the term in modern English allowing us to identify all the possible lexical choices which can be predicted from given lexical descriptions. Finally, we illustrate the suitability of selected methods for analyzing up in various semantic cases, and make the claim that a semantic account of the phrase must be conditioned to meet the overall changes resulting from its metaphorical transformation.

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